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From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Bj=F6rn?= Persson <bjorn@xn--rombobjrn-67a.se>
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Subject: Re: Status of AdaCL: Ada Class Library
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Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2010 02:51 +0100
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Michael R wrote:

> I remembered a previous post on a command line handling library,
> searched and found AdaCL.  The
> Orto package seems to be something, on the surface, that might be
> really useful but it depends on
> the Charles library which appears to be a pre-Ada2005 container
> library.  The date associated with
> the latest release on the download page is 2007-12-09.  Is this
> project "dead"?

Orto isn't dead, but it's dormant while I'm focusing on other projects. I 
can't speak for Charles or for the rest of AdaCL, but Orto and EAstrings are 
"alive" and if you find any bugs in them then I want to hear about it.

I had intended to switch from Charles to Ada.Containers, but I changed my 
mind when I learned that Ada.Containers can't even be read by multiple tasks 
at once. As far as I know the Charles containers can be accessed by multiple 
tasks as long as none of them modifies the container. The internal data 
structure in Orto ? which makes use of Charles ? isn't modified after the 
parsing is done, so if you parse the command line before you start any 
additional tasks, you can then freely look up parameters in multiple tasks.

I believe Charles still works, but I could probably use some other container 
library if there is a compelling reason to stop using Charles.

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Bj�rn Persson
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