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=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,88ed72d98e6b3457 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-10-06 10:07:14 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!irazu.switch.ch!switch.ch!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!newsmm00.sul.t-online.com!t-online.de!news.t-online.com!not-for-mail From: Martin Krischik Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Standard Library Interest? Date: Mon, 06 Oct 2003 18:42:29 +0200 Organization: AdaCL Message-ID: <3023389.1fXOZZXUEz@linux1.krischik.com> References: <71028628.nntQ5kSnyN@linux1.krischik.com> <3F8037DE.5040609@noplace.com> Reply-To: krischik@users.sourceforge.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Trace: news.t-online.com 1065459882 02 27690 e-VuVqwGSiY5i+ 031006 17:04:42 X-Complaints-To: usenet-abuse@t-online.de X-ID: ZR2InsZDoeSG3y2GnohvG48PhkOukEg1pTFt4BrzdsAh+F7FHaKh8R User-Agent: KNode/0.7.2 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:320 Date: 2003-10-06T18:42:29+02:00 List-Id: Marin David Condic wrote: > And therein lies the problem. Without some leadership, direction and > *probably* some financial commitment in some form, these all-volunteer > efforts tend to stall, drift and produce little. [cut more elaboration on this] You are right in some respect. However I belive that if there where enough volunteers a critical mass would be reached and the project would not stall any more. Take Pyhon as an example: http://sourceforge.net/softwaremap/trove_list.php?form_cat=178 With Regards Martin -- mailto://krischik@users.sourceforge.net http://www.ada.krischik.com