New Releases?

[zamderax]

I'm so excited about this project and so tempted to get started since it's so close to a 1.0.0 release.

I saw in the README.md this quote:

We anticipate to release a number of 1.0.0-beta-n releases during the beta phase of Swift 5.7, before releasing a source stable 1.0 soon after.

But the latest tagged release is 1.0.0-beta.3 released on Oct 27, 2022

Are there any upcoming releases planned or more frequent releases scheduled. I looked in the Swift forums but couldn't tell. Thank you!

[akbashev]

@zamderax There is no release schedule or something like that, but it doesn't mean it's abandoned. From my POV a lot of effort went into finishing concurrency and language support/improvements of distributed in Swift itself.
Actually I think it's good in a way—we're free to break and improve stuff now, including migration to Swift 6. And anyone can participate.

@ktoso can bring more light here 🙂

[ktoso]

In practice we're at this point not rushing to 1.0 anymore. Given that the language feature keeps evolving we'd probably be able to make some quite nicer today with resolvable protocols etc.

If anyone "needs" a release we can just keep cutting beta releases.

For the time being I don't foresee an 1.0 very soon, but the library should be perfectly usable as is.

It's a bit of a chicken and egg problem. I think if we'd polish up to Swift 6.0 and have all the worker pool, discovery etc on distributed actors rather than on behaviors I'd be ok to call a 1.0 at that point.