Re: [Quickfix-developers] RE: Release dates

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John Duncan:
>On the other hand, I would be very happy to support you if you want to
write the COM and Automation wrappers.

Ditto.

Ahmad, if you have a need for this, we would definitely welcome code
heading in that direction. As John noted, we are pretty busy right now
working on other things, but COM support would be on the wishlist if one
existed.

Speaking of which, in regard to the other parts of Ahmad's email:

Ahmad Zawawi:
> I havent seen any TODO/Wishlist tasks lying around.

At this point, there is no such list. To date, most requests have been
small, or internal customer driven. As new features are requested and
offers to handle open tasks increase (you are the first that I know of)
such a document will become necessary so that the community at large can
really drive the direction of QuickFIX. For the time being we are
suggesting that feature requrests and other items related to working on
QuickFIX be sent to this list including submissions. We are not using the
SourceForge features for these things.

As for interface tasks, I know that COM is something we have talked about,
but haven't gotten to yet. .NET is another, (I was planning on starting
work on that sometime soon -- hopefully this week) as are scripting
interfaces, specifically Python and Ruby (would require getting the C
interface done first I think).

Ahmad Zawawi:
>I havent found any archives for this mailing list. Is this project really
new?

Yes, QuickFIX was pre-released in February, and the full release was in
March.

Thanks for the feedback, looking forward to working with you.

Best,
Bill

William Caputo
ThoughtWorks, Inc.
(312) 953-0098