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From: Michael Erdmann <Michael.Erdmann@snafu.de>
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Subject: Re: Outside view (still): Development process in the Ada community
Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 21:46:50 +0200
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Robert Dewar wrote:
level.
> 
> You certainly can't go to ISO and say, "look, we don't seem
> to be able to get any vendors or major Ada users interested, but those
> folks who post on CLA are really
> enthusiastic".
I agree on this. I have removed the ISO completly from my
Agenda.

..........
> 
> What I think would be most useful is to generate new bindings and
> useful packages. Quite a few people (like Tom and Ted and Florian and
> Michael and others -- I am not trying to make a complete list here,
> and I would never succeeed) have put in effort on this, and that seems
> to
> be by far the best use of energy.
> 
I think you are right. If you look at the open source community,
progress has not been achieved by ISO style of working groups.
In most cases "..release early and often.." and the fact that
the code was "..use full.." in community context was
generating most of the dynamic and the progress.

So i am realy wondering why it is not possible to gather
some people, make a reference implementation of a reasonable
set of simple and well documented package set.

There have been a lot of attempts so far as i know, but
my personal impression was that the way woas more
important then the reaching the destination. So i am
realy wondering if the "..community .." namely
comp.lang.ada realy needs these nice package?

Any how, i need these packages saving precious time. So I
guess somebody else may need them as well. This already
makes it worth to make an additional attempt!

So i am realy wondering if ACT could establish some
kind of public contribtion process. This would
make it possible to boundle the compiler with
some of these packages.
I would expect that ACT, which is an authority in
comp.lang.ada, could be the crystalisation point
for a lot of currently uncoordinated activities.

What do you think?


Regards
    M.Erdmann