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From: Jacob Sparre Andersen <sparre@crs4.it>
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Marin David Condic wrote:

> Well, I won't say it *can't* work - just that it has been tried in a few 
> different ways and guess what? We don't have a Conventional Ada Library.
> 
> If the thing has zero interest from the vendors it will become Just 
> Another Ada Library like the half-dozen or so that are already out 
> there.

Yes, but...

 > A small teem of developers might be able to do a good job of
> building a library - even if they were volunteers - but it would need 
> some direction from those who have to adopt it as "The Right Thing". 
> Think "Requirements" - someone has to impose some.

If we can't get the compiler vendors (or ARA) to come up with some
requirements, wouldn't it be a viable alternative to get Ada Europe and
SIGAda to create a common working group for writing the requirements
(and specifications?) for a �Conventional Ada Library�?  Of course Ada
Europe and SIGAda do not have the same easy way to force a library on
the programmers as the compiler vendors, but I can't think of any better
solution right now.

> A group of enthusiasts sounds plausable, but I believe that unless it 
> has some cloak of "officialness" to it, some acceptance on the part of 
> the vendors and some sort of charter/requirements to work to, it will 
> either fall apart or produce Just Another Ada Library.

Ada Europe and SIGAda _do_ have a cloak of "officialness".  The question
is if it is sufficiently convincing.

Jacob
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