Re: [Tm4j-developers] Branching TM4J

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Lars Heuer wrote:
> Hi Xu=C3=A2n,
>
> [...]
>  =20
>> as I'd like to enhance TM4J with new features (which might imply
>> significant changes) and as I assume that there is a significant
>> userbase building on the last current release (which is TM4J 0.9.7 fro=
m
>> more than 2=C2=BD years ago), it is time to create a "stable" branch p=
arallel
>> to the unstable branch. My understanding is as follows:
>>    =20
>
> I prepared a 0.9.x release with which fixes several bugs.
> C.f. <http://tm4j.cvs.sourceforge.net/tm4j/tm4j/RELEASE.txt?view=3Dmark=
up>
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I'm sorry, you are right. I judged from the "News" page (
http://sourceforge.net/news/?group_id=3D27895 ) which currently shows
"TM4J 0.9.7 Released" as the latest announcement.
<http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=3D412950>
> Someone with admin rights (Murray?) should prepare a release IMO.
>
> The last official release sucks.
>
> [...]
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>>     * unstable branch "MAIN":
>>           o No hard requirement to keep compatibility (although
>>             API-level compatibility should be kept as well as possible=
).
>>    =20
>
> IMO very difficult if you want to support TMDM.
>  =20
My current idea is to support a superset of TMDM and the current TM4J as
laid out in
http://tm4j.cvs.sourceforge.net/*checkout*/tm4j/tm4j/docs/TMDM-support.ht=
ml?revision=3D1.1
=2E

Maybe this proves to be infeasible, maybe not. I'm still somewhat
optimistic. :-) But maybe the additional effort is worth it because
applications using TM4J may get a smooth transition (increasing
development efforts here to decrease development efforts at the
applications).
> Best regards,
> Lars
>  =20

ciao,
Xu=C3=A2n.