Re: Boehm-Demers-Weiser conservative garbage collector and GNAT

[Marin David Condic <nobody@noplace.com>]

I looked at the website briefly and am not sure what you mean in this 
context. This appears to be a text editor similar to VI. Are you 
suggesting the project as a model of how to collectively develop an Ada 
library or does it have some collection of useful software tools?

My thinking is that Ada could benefit from having a library similar to 
Java or the MFC - only perhaps bigger and better. (Much of the MFC, for 
example, is dedicated to filling in weaknesses within C++ that Ada 
doesn't share, so Ada could spend more time on other matters.) We've 
talked container libraries here before and that may make it into the 
standard - but I've expressed my doubts as to the wisdom of expecting 
the standard to react to every need. I'd like to see a "standard" 
library that went well beyond just containers. But it takes some 
willingness on the part of the whole community to buy into one 
particular library as "The Library" and I don't see that happening at 
the moment.

MDC

Preben Randhol wrote:
> 
> Something like the vim repository perhaps? => http://vim.sf.net/
> 


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