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darkteflon·

Looks like it’s pretty much abandoned:

> doit is under active development. Version 0.36.0 released on 2022-04.

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> doit core features are quite stable. If there is no recent development, it does NOT mean the project is not being maintained... The project has 100% unit-test code coverage.

Okay, but support stops at Python 3.10. I have nothing against the tool - it looks interesting. But isn’t support of current versions of Python table stakes for a tool like this? How am I, as a potential user of this tool, supposed to interpret the lack of 3.11 support and a last release dated end of last year?

After the chaos of Python 2to3, backwards Python's backwards compatibility has been amazing. The tool is created for developers and claims 100% code coverage. Determining if it works with any specific version of Python would be a trivial exercise of clone the repo, make an venv, and run the tests.

This is something that a dev should do when evaluating a new dependency even when it claims to support the version relevant to you. Sadly, many do not.

It works great, it's stable, never found a bug for years and it's compatible with the next python release candidates.

For the immense convenience it brings, the risk is very low.

I'm guessing it could stay that way for 10 years and still be perfectly usable.

The Github repo shows some commits being made as recently as 4 months ago: https://github.com/pydoit/doit

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