What's the state of JCL/JVCL?

[Stefan Glienke 2019]

I know the repositories get maintenance and update for new Delphi releases but I wonder if there is actually a release planned.

Last JCL release is 2.7 from september 2015 which probably does not support any Delphi version after that - last JVCL release is 3.49 also from september 2015.

 

Since then we are in limbo state working with some master state - this is kinda far from optimal.

[dummzeuch 1517]

My impression is that there are very few people left from the original Jedi group.

 

I know for sure that I personally stopped contributing when the project moved to Github, but my contributions were merely a few bug fixes, so they don't really count in the big picture.

[pyscripter 694]

• Andreas Hausladen. Obones and  and a few others have been quite active in maintaining JCL/JVCL. 
• Although, there are no recent releases the recommended installation procedure involves using the GitHub master.  See https://github.com/project-jedi/jcl for details.
• JCL/JVCL support all Delphi versions including the most recent ones.
• There have been tens of commits fixing warnings and minors bugs over the last few months (https://github.com/project-jedi/jcl/commits/master)
• There are masses of gems in both JCL and JVCL that are still worth using in production code.

 

[PeterPanettone 158]

15 hours ago, pyscripter said:

 

• Andreas Hausladen. Obones and  and a few others have been quite active in maintaining JCL/JVCL. 
• Although, there are no recent releases the recommended installation procedure involves using the GitHub master.  See https://github.com/project-jedi/jcl for details.
• JCL/JVCL support all Delphi versions including the most recent ones.
• There have been tens of commits fixing warnings and minors bugs over the last few months (https://github.com/project-jedi/jcl/commits/master)
• There are masses of gems in both JCL and JVCL that are still worth using in production code.

Embarcadero should hire them and pay them a decent salary!

 

Embarcadero should also hire a few dozens of first-class Delphi developers and maintain the major open source Delphi libraries!

 

What is Embarcadero doing with the many billions of $$$ they get from Delphi licenses?