Optional fields in proto3

[dpkristensen]

Optional fields in proto3

[Gobot1234]

This is already supported on main

[dpkristensen]

@Gobot1234 When will the update be published? Last update on pypi was 4 years ago.

[Gobot1234]

I have verified this issue occurs on the latest prelease of betterproto which can be installed using pip install -U --pre betterproto, if possible.

[dpkristensen]

Sorry I misread that text. But my question is about when a new release will occur; pypi shows the CI status is "failing" and I would like not to add a dependency to something which may break in the future.

[Gobot1234]

There is no current release date for a full release of V2. The CI failing isn't for V2 I wouldn't worry about it

[dkbarn]

I think it's a valid concern for users of this library to ask whether it has been abandoned before fully committing to integrating it into any project. It sounds like all focus is on V2, which is unreleased and only available via the --pre flag. Meanwhile, no features or bugfixes have been backported to V1 in over 4 years. Why is that? It's unusual to expect all users to install your package with --pre indefinitely, while abandoning support of the stable version of the package.