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 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: 2003-10-25 14:11:25 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!elnk-nf2-pas!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!stamper.news.atl.earthlink.net!newsread1.news.atl.earthlink.net.POSTED!d9c68f36!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3F9AE6F2.4040108@noplace.com> From: Marin David Condic User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 (OEM-HPQ-PRS1C03) 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> <3F995D12.5040200@comcast.net> <3F9AB5E9.6060809@comcast.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2003 21:11:25 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 209.165.24.146 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread1.news.atl.earthlink.net 1067116285 209.165.24.146 (Sat, 25 Oct 2003 14:11:25 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2003 14:11:25 PDT Organization: EarthLink Inc. -- http://www.EarthLink.net Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:1676 Date: 2003-10-25T21:11:25+00:00 List-Id: 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. > -- ====================================================================== Marin David Condic I work for: http://www.belcan.com/ My project is: http://www.jsf.mil/NSFrames.htm Send Replies To: m c o n d i c @ a c m . o r g "So if I understand 'The Matrix Reloaded' correctly, the Matrix is basically a Microsoft operating system - it runs for a while and then crashes and reboots. By design, no less. Neo is just a memory leak that's too hard to fix, so they left him in... The users don't complain because they're packed in slush and kept sedated" -- Marin D. Condic ======================================================================