Re: Ada Component Registry proposal

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

I don't think that a committment of money is necessary at exactly this 
point in time - although if the vendors or the government or someone 
wants to jump up and fund the whole thing, I wouldn't stop them. ;-)

What would be a good first step from the standpoint of the vendors would 
be simply to indicate some interest in the project and a willingness to 
participate in some way to guide it along, with the implication that a 
successful start would be adopted and distributed with their compilers. 
(No committments - just a willingness to distribute it *if* it meets 
expectations.)

Money is a matter that needs to be considered if they expect the library 
to get any bigger than a few container packages. If all they want is 
container packages, there's plenty of "Volunteer-Speculation-Efforts" 
out there from which to pick already.

MDC

Marius Amado Alves wrote:
> 
> But I agree with others on this list that a volunteer basis only will
> not get us there. Some hard commitment i.e. money is necessary. And some
> kind of executive/business plan is necessary to gather this kind of
> support. Note I'm not against the current technical work on the
> Registry. This and other technical elements are necessary for *any*
> plan. I also feel the lack of a work plan.
> 


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