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: 2003-10-24 10:12:11 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.mathworks.com!wn13feed!wn11feed!worldnet.att.net!204.127.198.203!attbi_feed3!attbi_feed4!attbi.com!attbi_s51.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3F995D12.5040200@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> <3F97EBFD.8040901@comcast.net> <3F9879DA.6070205@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_s51 1067015530 24.34.139.183 (Fri, 24 Oct 2003 17:12:10 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2003 17:12:10 GMT Organization: Comcast Online Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2003 17:12:10 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:1611 Date: 2003-10-24T17:12:10+00:00 List-Id: sk wrote: > This is an important distinction for me which can probably > only be answered by waiting for RIEachus' full proposal :-) The problem is one of terminology. I am developing A registry, and a set registry maintenance software and tools that should result in many people taking THE registry, and adding their proprietary software libraries to it. No reason they shouldn't, and if they do it by having a local registry they merge with each new release of THE registry, the whole process should be fairly painless. If at some point they decide to publish some of their local tools, great. In the context of what I will call the Common Ada Library (CAL) proposal, the registry software can be used to maintain a subset which is the CAL. It would almost certainly have much stricter rules for inclusion than my version of the registry. Again, if people want to comply with the "extra" rules needed for CAL and sumbit their software there, great. So the goal is that software components will migrate: Local library/registry --> Global registry --> CAL. That is part of what I mean when I talk about evolution. -- 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