From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me
X-Spam-Level: 
X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham
	autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4
X-Google-Thread: 103376,6cfdc446e6bbe8ba
X-Google-NewGroupId: yes
X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet
X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit
Received: by 10.68.196.232 with SMTP id ip8mr13124676pbc.6.1339961117924;
        Sun, 17 Jun 2012 12:25:17 -0700 (PDT)
Path: 
 l9ni62111pbj.0!nntp.google.com!news1.google.com!goblin2!goblin1!goblin.stu.neva.ru!nuzba.szn.dk!news.jacob-sparre.dk!munin.jacob-sparre.dk!pnx.dk!.POSTED!not-for-mail
From: Tero Koskinen <tero.koskinen@iki.fi>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: Listing currently maintained libraries for Ada
Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2012 22:25:15 +0300
Organization: Jacob Sparre Andersen Research & Innovation
Message-ID: <20120617222515.2948464e8e598d835991dc71@iki.fi>
References: <d36fe271-b6de-489b-9f4d-e6994773445e@googlegroups.com>
	<jrehnr$27nn$1@adenine.netfront.net>
	<079c1b87-1e95-4c18-a1e2-6fab1a3b9db7@googlegroups.com>
NNTP-Posting-Host: dsl-trebrasgw2-fe9cde00-96.dhcp.inet.fi
Mime-Version: 1.0
X-Trace: munin.nbi.dk 1339961115 11408 80.222.156.96 (17 Jun 2012 19:25:15
 GMT)
X-Complaints-To: news@jacob-sparre.dk
NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2012 19:25:15 +0000 (UTC)
X-Newsreader: Sylpheed 3.2.0beta6 (GTK+ 2.24.10; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu)
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Date: 2012-06-17T22:25:15+03:00
List-Id: <comp.lang.ada>

On Sun, 17 Jun 2012 08:33:11 -0700 (PDT)
Marco <prenom_nomus@yahoo.com> wrote:

> On Thursday, June 14, 2012 10:37:59 PM UTC-7, Jeffrey Carter wrote:
> > On 06/14/2012 08:51 PM, i3text@gmail.com wrote:
> > > When searching for Ada libraries, it is discouraging to find mostly dead
> > > links or links to dead projects. So I decided to make a list of all the
> > > libraries I could find that seem to be still active projects. To be listed, a
> > > library must have seen some maintenance activity within the last year. I
> > > generally ingored things that are already part of the GNAT distribution.
> > >
> > > At first, I wanted to list just libraries of production quality, but I
> > > figured I couldn't reliably evaluate that. So, a lot of the things here are
> > > alpha quality. Of course, there are libraries that haven't seen any work for
> > > several years but still get downloaded a lot. But I wanted a listing of
> > > libraries where I could reasonably expect help and bug-fixes.
> > >
> > > Do you know any I've missed?
> > 
> > Your criteria are somewhat strange. A mature library will be useful but see no 
> > "maintenance activity" because there is no longer anything to change. 
> 
> I agree that all usable libraries should be listed. 
> Can this list be transferred to wikipedia or other well maintained website?
> Maybe Library Authors can just add a note on the their website once a year or so to show that is a still a viable library.

You can add Ada libraries and applications to AdaCommons wiki, for
example.

The address is http://commons.ada.cx/Main_Page

Also, if you find dead links, you can fix them by yourself, since it is
a wiki. :)

> 
> I also appreciate the OPs effort.


-- 
Tero Koskinen - http://iki.fi/tero.koskinen/