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 10:18:37 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!wn14feed!worldnet.att.net!204.127.198.203!attbi_feed3!attbi_feed4!attbi.com!attbi_s52.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3F995E94.80303@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> 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 1067015916 24.34.139.183 (Fri, 24 Oct 2003 17:18:36 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2003 17:18:36 GMT Organization: Comcast Online Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2003 17:18:36 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:1612 Date: 2003-10-24T17:18:36+00:00 List-Id: sk wrote: > That it is the lead in to so many jokes ("Trust me...",) that they > aren't funny anymore:-) But in this case, it is true. The only reason I didn't post the current state of the registry here was that I felt it would be unnecessary clutter. I will probably have it up on my web site sometime in the next few weeks, and probably on some other Ada websites as well. Keeping the whole process open is necessary if it is to succeed, and I expect that for most software, the authors will be the ones to create and maintain the registry entries. The only potential problem is that if the software for adding material to a site is posted and used "too soon," authors may give up if there are too many changes and the software changes too often. That is what I am trying to avoid. -- 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