Re: Standard Library Interest?

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

Its not a failure to discover that the vendors have little to no 
interest in distributing a library. Not for us, at least. (I think its a 
failure for them - they'd better do *something* to make their products 
more attractive & interesting to the general computing world or they'd 
better start developing C++ or Java front-ends for their next generation 
products. Ooops! Some of them already *have*! ;-)

What it means is that we've saved all sorts of effort charging off 
building a library only to discover that the vendors had little to no 
interest in distributing it. The next logical question would be "Is 
there enough interest in the general Ada community in a library built on 
something out there or all-new that provided something bigger than your 
basic container library?" There's no point in persuing it if nobody 
wants anything more than containers and they're happy to use whatever 
flavor of freebie download they like best.

If the vendors don't want a CAL and the ARG doesn't want a CAL then 
there isn't much likelihood that a CAL is going to come about. The best 
you could hope for would be to find a way of funding the development of 
some library and market it as aggressively as you could with the hope 
that *most* users eventually got with it. Maybe ten years from now, the 
vendors or the ARG would get on board with it. If Ada has any users out 
there in another ten years. :-(

MDC


Stephane Richard wrote:
> 
> Seems I've failed at my goal here :-).  I wanted to cover the vendors side
> not only as far as "investments" but also as far as possibility to incude
> our effort in they distros, and attempt to get insight on what they want and
> what they think their clients want.  I have to agree with IRVINE that

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