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: 2003-10-26 10:11:46 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!wn14feed!wn13feed!worldnet.att.net!204.127.198.203!attbi_feed3!attbi.com!attbi_s51.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3F9C0E01.10807@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> <3F995D12.5040200@comcast.net> <3F9AB5E9.6060809@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 1067191905 24.34.139.183 (Sun, 26 Oct 2003 18:11:45 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2003 18:11:45 GMT Organization: Comcast Online Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2003 18:11:45 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:1705 Date: 2003-10-26T18:11:45+00:00 List-Id: sk wrote: > Sorry, breaking my intentions. In case you havn't included a > "field" for dependencies, you probably need to. For example, > the OpenGL binding depends on AdaBindX. Right now I have a Requires entry that can include other projects, compilers, Ada versions, hardware or operating systems. It will probably get expanded a bit to allow for bindings to non-Ada code to say what they bind to. (Or that may end up as a different type of entry. "Binds to" perhaps?) There is also a category Supports which is similar but different in intent. If software has been ported to several compilers or several operating systems, this allows documentation of what versions are known to be supported. -- 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