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"Marin David Condic" <mcondic.auntie.spam@acm.org> wrote in message  

> That's a decision I'm willing to defer to some committee that acts as the
> owner of the library.

That is the problem with Ada, it is the 'committee' thing.

committees can not write or design software. May be review or comment
on it only.  

the best libraries and software out there was written by a single, 
or two talented individuals. Only in the Ada world I keep seeing this 
committee thing pop up all the time. The more people work on software,
the worst and more delayed it gets. 

my 2 cents.