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-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,ac39a12d5faf5b14 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-04-14 09:30:10 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeeds.belnet.be!news.belnet.be!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!newsfeedt0.toon.t-online.de!newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!unlisys!news.snafu.de!boavista!nobody From: Michael Erdmann Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Rant! (was) Development process in the Ada community Date: Sun, 14 Apr 2002 18:33:00 +0200 Organization: [Posted via] Inter.net Germany GmbH Message-ID: <3CB9AF3C.8030301@snafu.de> References: <3CB46975.90408@snafu.de> <3CB77A6B.5090504@snafu.de> <184076622a7c648f157c56e417bd86d4.48257@mygate.mailgate.org> <3CB9375F.8040904@snafu.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: tc10-n67-004.de.inter.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.8) Gecko/20020204 X-Accept-Language: en-us Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:22521 Date: 2002-04-14T18:33:00+02:00 List-Id: Larry Kilgallen wrote: > In article <3CB9375F.8040904@snafu.de>, Michael Erdmann writes: > > >>This is exaclty the impression i have my self. So i was wondering >>if Ada could take a new direction, when the open source communitiy is >>more directly involved by establishing a public process in order >>to enhance the predefined libraries, and may be later, to make an >>attempt to get these things into ISO etc.. >> > > Don't worry about getting it into the ISO standards, just get people > using a common set of packages and the rest will follow. There were > recent efforts here in this newsgroup in the area of containers; you > are free to choose a different venue. Did they manage to get this into an Appendix of the Ada 95 RM, or did they succeed with there container packages? > > There is _nothing_ about the ISO process that is holding you back, > and libraries/packages have little to do with core language changes. > The problem is now to find the correct platform (organisation) to develope the process. Is there already something in the community or has something new to be setup? My idea is to use the ISO ARC WG9 as a start platform. Regards M.Erdmann