Re: [ANN] List_Image v0.2.0

[Lionel Draghi <lionel.draghi@gmail.com>]

Le vendredi 2 février 2018 23:40:36 UTC+1, Randy Brukardt a écrit :
> > Look's like we need a "Text" abstraction here. 
> 
> For what's its worth (probably very little :-), I used a list of unbounded 
> strings for that purpose in my Trash-Finder spam filter. If I was doing it 
> today, I'd probably use an indefinite vector of type String instead (lets 
> Ada handle memory management of the entire thing, not just the individual 
> lines, and the overhead would be about the same). A bit clunky to change the 
> length of a line (you have to use Replace_Element for that), but otherwise 
> about the same as using an Unbounded_String.

I haven't given up on that Text package, but to avoid forcing users to pull to much packages (unless standard) with this simple utility, I tried another solution : I moved multi lines declarations to platform dependent child packages named Unix_ and Windows_Predefined_Styles.
 
The choice will still be done explicitly in the user code.
And there is a not so satisfying code duplication.
I check in the Makefile that both package are identical except for the EOL definition and the package Name. But most users will use only one of those packages, and I felt another generic would be too much. YMMV

Next step : back on exploring the "Text" way.

Lionel

PS : the current version https://github.com/LionelDraghi/List_Image is tagged 1.0.0. Sounds strange if you consider that this is a POC. But I try to apply semantic versioning (https://semver.org/), and there is an API change, so, +1. 
And it should already be v3.0.0... 
Not surprising that some developers feel better with calendar versioning (http://sedimental.org/designing_a_version.html)!