Re: Standard Library Interest?

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

But who should pick the "Winning Design"? I'd think that ought to be the 
vendors. Hence, I'd imagine them running the show and agreeing to 
deliver the end result. Otherwise, you're free to submit a design to me 
and I'll pronounce it "The Winner" and declare it to be "The Official 
Conventional Ada Library. What does that accomplish?

Get something going with the vendors and I think you'll see a library 
result that starts to get shipped with compilers and used as "The 
General Answer" by most developers. I don't think it matters if the 
vendors form up a R&D group and fund it to do the job or get a SIGAda 
committee going and donate some of their staff to it or contract the job 
out or pick some volunteer effort as "The Winner" and start building on 
it. Long term, I think they're going to have to spend a few bucks to 
keep it going, but they're doing that already in most respects via the 
ARM and their own libraries. I see them as the key to picking a 
direction and adopting something to go there and making it be "The 
Standard Thing". Without their involvement, we'll just see more of the same.

MDC


Warren W. Gay VE3WWG wrote:
> 
> I like the idea of small teams that are capable of consensus, and
> the idea that a competition with a winning design should be
> adopted. Where this seems to fall down, is that the very people
> that should be involved, do not have the time to allocate to this.
> 

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