Re: why not

["Marin David Condic" <dont.bother.mcondic.auntie.spam@[acm.org>]

Being able to compile them and being willing to distribute them are two
different things. I could imagine lots of business reasons why a vendor
might say "thanks, but no thanks" to the suggestion that they bundle someone
else's software in with their compiler distribution.

Observation: The Booch Components have been available on the Net for some
time now and IIRC, they were available under a license very similar to (if
not identical to) the one used for the Gnat runtime code. (IOW, no big legal
restrictions to prevent a vendor from using them.) Yet in all that time, how
many vendors have packaged the BCs with their compiler? By my count, that
number would look amazingly a lot like "zero" (correct my count if you know
of one that does...). Why not? They're "available". They "add value". They
"cost nothing". Since I don't believe the vendors are either a) Stupid or b)
Ignorant (of the existence of the BCs.) I've got to believe there is some
reason they don't already do this. (Quality? Implied willingness to support?
Implied endorsement? Insufficient components/documentation? Waiting for a
winner to emerge? Product distinction? Not Invented Here?)

That is why I think it would be valuable to hear the vendor's opinions on
what is required of some potential component library. Get three or four
vendors willing to say "If you guys build something like this.... we'll
distribute it with the compiler..." and then you've really got something.

MDC
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"Ted Dennison" <dennison@telepath.com> wrote in message
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>
> I suspect so. I already consider it a sort of demi-requirement that my
compilers
> properly compile Booch. Given that they use nested generics and classes,
this
> isn't as trivial a requirement as it might sound.
>