Re: Ada Component Registry proposal

["Robert I. Eachus" <rieachus@comcast.net>]

sk wrote:

> My question is why would you expect the participation
> with the Registry to be any different than the experience
> with AdaIC or other websites ?

Different purpose if you will.  Registering a website or whatever on 
AdaIC just adds one more place that people can look and maybe find your 
reusable library.  With the registry, the main benefit for everyone is a 
standard format for describing reusable software.  Even if you don't 
share your software with anyone, or outside your own company, using the 
standard repository format to describe and link to it should make it 
easier for people to use--even you.  (And if it doesn't do that, it will 
  fail.)

And what I have already found from experiments is that the level of 
effort to do a good job of entering an existing library is significant, 
but the rewards are worth it.  For example, did you know that there is a 
binding to Oracle's OCI as part of GNADE?  I didn't until I downloaded 
the Zip file and walked the directory heirarchy looking to see what was 
there.

-- 
                                        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