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: 103376,88ed72d98e6b3457 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-10-05 08:25:49 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!sn-xit-02!sn-xit-06!sn-xit-09!supernews.com!pd2nf1so.cg.shawcable.net!residential.shaw.ca!sjc70.webusenet.com!news.webusenet.com!elnk-nf2-pas!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!stamper.news.atl.earthlink.net!newsread1.news.atl.earthlink.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3F8037DE.5040609@noplace.com> From: Marin David Condic User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 (OEM-HPQ-PRS1C03) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Standard Library Interest? References: <71028628.nntQ5kSnyN@linux1.krischik.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sun, 05 Oct 2003 15:25:48 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 209.165.24.227 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread1.news.atl.earthlink.net 1065367548 209.165.24.227 (Sun, 05 Oct 2003 08:25:48 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 05 Oct 2003 08:25:48 PDT Organization: EarthLink Inc. -- http://www.EarthLink.net Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:267 Date: 2003-10-05T15:25:48+00:00 List-Id: And therein lies the problem. Without some leadership, direction and *probably* some financial commitment in some form, these all-volunteer efforts tend to stall, drift and produce little. Even if it did, without some implicit buy-in from the vendors and ARG, its just another library amongst many. Go look at all the stuff sitting on AdaPower and elsewhere. Its fine work and great that people out it out there. None of it has been adopted and declared to be "The Thing", so its got overlap, varying styles, varying quality, varying levels of support and enhancement, etc. None of it comes along for the ride with any compiler, so nobody can point to it and say "I can count on this being in the development environment so all Ada programmers will know about it, use it, etc." It needs ARG and vendor support and direction or its mostly wasted effort. MDC Martin Krischik wrote: > > You are not the first one: > > http://sourceforge.net/projects/ascl/ > http://ascl.sourceforge.net/ > > However the ascl seem to be stalled but you could take it over and continue. > > As for help: I am with you. > > With Regards > > Martin -- ====================================================================== Marin David Condic I work for: http://www.belcan.com/ My project is: http://www.jsf.mil/NSFrames.htm Send Replies To: m c o n d i c @ a c m . o r g "All reformers, however strict their social conscience, live in houses just as big as they can pay for." --Logan Pearsall Smith ======================================================================