Parsington version update, and maintenance

[Andreas Røsdal]

Hello!

We are using Parsington for a Java report module. I have two questions:

1. Considering updating from Parsington from 1.0.5 to 3.1.0. Is there anything important which has changed in terms of using the library?  Does 3.1.0 "behave" or compute differently?

2. There has been no commits to https://github.com/scijava/parsington in two years. Is the project still maintained? I would be interested in helping with maintenance, my github username is andreasrosdal if you want to add me as a developer, I could help with maintenance and merge pull requests, update dependencies etc.

Regards,

Andreas Røsdal

[Curtis Rueden]

Hi Andreas,

Great to hear that Parsington is useful to you!

> 1. Considering updating from Parsington from 1.0.5 to 3.1.0. Is there
> anything important which has changed in terms of using the library?  Does
> 3.1.0 "behave" or compute differently?

 2.0.0 and 3.0.0 major version increments were not very breaking.

The bump to 3.0.0 was due to raising the minimum Java version from 6 to 8:
https://github.com/scijava/parsington/commit/ef094b1a05e9bce8f8a7fead735492d3d3c5defd

The bump to 2.0.0 was due to the package prefix being renamed from org.scijava.parse to org.scijava.parsington, to better match the artifactId.

https://github.com/scijava/parsington/commit/c87f2e464e2449971fd6e539d6bdd7f04695cae6

So you should be fine to update: the API remains the same. If you run into any trouble, file a GitHub issue and I'm happy to help!

> 2. There has been no commits to https://github.com/scijava/parsington in two
> years. Is the project still maintained? I would be interested in helping with
> maintenance, my github username is andreasrosdal if you want to add me as a
> developer, I could help with maintenance and merge pull requests, update
> dependencies etc.

The reason there have been no commits in two years is because there have been no pull requests or issues filed in two years. :laugh: And the project is complete and stable in my view. So while I appreciate the offer, there is not really much to do as a maintainer! To be honest, Parsington has been one of my favorite projects to build: very targeted scope, and not too many design compromises. That said, if there are specific things it does not do, but that you wish it did, let's discuss on a GitHub issue!

Regards,
Curtis

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