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=-0.4 required=5.0 tests=AC_FROM_MANY_DOTS,BAYES_00 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,7ee10ec601726fbf X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-10-11 10:58:10 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeeds.belnet.be!news.belnet.be!psinet-eu-nl!psiuk-p4!uknet!psiuk-n!news.pace.co.uk!nh.pace.co.uk!not-for-mail From: "Marin David Condic" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: why not "standardize" the Booch Components? (was Re: is Ada dying?) Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2001 13:50:20 -0400 Organization: Posted on a server owned by Pace Micro Technology plc Message-ID: <9q4m4t$t4n$1@nh.pace.co.uk> References: <3BC30674.BA88AAB6@brighton.ac.uk> <9pvv3t$ves$1@news.huji.ac.il> <9q49fc$nh3$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <9q4dnk017fg@drn.newsguy.com> <9q4fr6$qj5$1@nh.pace.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: dhcp-200-133.miami.pace.co.uk X-Trace: nh.pace.co.uk 1002822621 29847 136.170.200.133 (11 Oct 2001 17:50:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@news.cam.pace.co.uk NNTP-Posting-Date: 11 Oct 2001 17:50:21 GMT X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:14304 Date: 2001-10-11T17:50:21+00:00 List-Id: Well, one other issue that I think is kind of important: If some version of the Booch Components were sufficiently massaged to the point of being acceptable as a de-facto standard, would any of the Ada vendors be willing to pick them up and bundle them into their distributions? I imagine that there might be a number of people who would be willing to do some amount of work on the Booch Components (or any other suitable library) with respect to making it into an industrial grade product. However, it really doesn't do much good unless it shows up with the compiler. If it comes down to downloading it separately, you'll have what youv'e got now: Dozens of available libraries of stuff with no one library being the dominant technology. It was helpful that the Win32Ada bindings got distributed with some of the PC compilers and it pretty much became a standard that everyone adhered to. Something similar would help an ADT library become a standard. If the compiler vendors (or at least *some* of them) refuse to get on board with the Booch Components (or any other library - for any reasons - good or bad) then this is all just a bunch of pretty talk and blue-sky ideas. MDC -- Marin David Condic Senior Software Engineer Pace Micro Technology Americas www.pacemicro.com Enabling the digital revolution e-Mail: marin.condic@pacemicro.com Web: http://www.mcondic.com/ "Pat Rogers" wrote in message news:ajjx7.343$Fl2.166882460@newssvr11.news.prodigy.com... > > Sounds good. >