I tried your version when mining on windows and my antivirus (Bitdefender) wanted no part of it.
Oh well, nothing I can do about malware "antivirus software".
So I have no opinion whether or not it works. I settled on CGminer till I got the raspberry going. Then the instructions for the Raspberry were provided for CGminer. So here I am in the CGminer thread.
If it works and you're perfectly happy with it, great.
If it's lacking for you in any way, you might try BFGMiner to see if it already has your needs addressed.
If neither do, it never hurts to post a feature request to both.
My unmentionable "alt coins" are also chugging along on 3.7.2 without complaints.
I always advise against running unmaintained software.
Whether you go with cgminer, BFGMiner, Linux, Windows, or whatever, always use something receiving developer attention for security patches.