Thus spake LoadEffectiveAddress:
For the longest time, there’s been a plan to work on a better-designed
Vassal 4 and ditch Java. Years. But then Covid-19 came along and
apparently spurred some new interest in Vassal and there are now some
forward-looking plans to significantly improve the v3 client over
several releases.
That’s only partly due to the pandemic. Work on 3.3 started in Autumn
2019.
I’ve been avoiding v3 since I heard about v4, but it’s hard to tell if
it’s still going to happen. Even desktop Java has improved since the
original complaints about it. I don’t want to argue for or against it,
I am just wondering: is v4 still likely, or is this resurgence of
interest going to keep rolling on v3 into the foreseeable future, and
end up being the new goal?
Once 3.5 is released, my own development time will be going into V4.
We released 3.5.0-beta1 yesterday, so that will be happening fairly
soon.
I hope this doesn’t come across as pushy or entitled, I understand
everyone is a volunteer and things can take time and be interrupted by
real life. I am just unclear on the future plans, given the recent
(relative) flurry of activity. It feels like there have been more
releases this year than over the last five.
From my point of view, the purpose of much of the work since last fall
has been to get V3 into a state where it doesn’t require much maintenance,
in order to give me time to work on V4 while people use V3.
–
J.