Re: Package reformatting tool availability

[Andy Askey <askeya@res.raytheon.com>]

Thanx for the info.  I noticed from the responses here (and others
emailed) that the everyone wanted to know why I would need this tool
since packages are meant to contain only related types and therefore
should not be broken up.  

Unfortunately the legacy Ada I have dealt with in the passed 7 years has
a different criteria for grouping types within packages.  It appears
that there is some rule of thumb that only about 30-50 types can be
placed in one package.  When more types are created, there is an obvious
need for another package.  I guess this makes it easier on the
developers.  Some discipline of thought must be that the number of
"with" statements increase complexity exponentially.  I missed this
course in school and must fall back on the "related types to a package"
philosophy.  Therefore, I have a need for this tool to bridge this
software philosophical chasm.

Actually, I figured out the requirements of what I need.  Maybe I'll get
bored some weekend and write a perl script break up packages based on
dependency relationships.  I'll post this if I do ... but then again,
football season just started.

Andy
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