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,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,15267b2c375b45c2 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-10-23 07:39:53 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.mathworks.com!wn13feed!worldnet.att.net!204.127.198.203!attbi_feed3!attbi_feed4!attbi.com!attbi_s52.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3F97E7E5.4050603@comcast.net> From: "Robert I. Eachus" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20021120 Netscape/7.01 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada Component Registry proposal References: <3F92BEAA.9030004@comcast.net> <3F96B96E.3000707@comcast.net> <3F9739EF.4000608@comcast.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.34.139.183 X-Complaints-To: abuse@comcast.net X-Trace: attbi_s52 1066919992 24.34.139.183 (Thu, 23 Oct 2003 14:39:52 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 14:39:52 GMT Organization: Comcast Online Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 14:39:52 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:1517 Date: 2003-10-23T14:39:52+00:00 List-Id: sk wrote: > > ... I need to register what exists now. > > ... and from a previous post ... > > > I think we should be aiming for the future, not the past. > > Not XOR but there seems to be a certain OR about the two statements :-) Exactly. Marins want to find a better way to determine what user requirements for a standard library are. I think that the registry will eventually turn into a resource that indicates what actually exists now (or at some point in the future) and what of that is used. Then others will be able to take this set and evolve it toward a consistant library. I certainly have no objection to a "standard" library that comes in pieces supplied by different authors and groups and where one of the things that the standard library provides is "fixed points" where all of the components have been synchronized so that there is no version skew. Users can then take one or more later versions of particular components, but will have to be aware of the potential version skew problems. -- Robert I. Eachus "Quality is the Buddha. Quality is scientific reality. Quality is the goal of Art. It remains to work these concepts into a practical, down-to-earth context, and for this there is nothing more practical or down-to-earth than what I have been talking about all along...the repair of an old motorcycle." -- from Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig