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 12:52:48 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 15:33:18 -0400 Organization: Posted on a server owned by Pace Micro Technology plc Message-ID: <9q4s5v$2j4$1@nh.pace.co.uk> References: <3BC30674.BA88AAB6@brighton.ac.uk> <9pvv3t$ves$1@news.huji.ac.il> <9q49fc$nh3$1@nh.pace.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: dhcp-200-133.miami.pace.co.uk X-Trace: nh.pace.co.uk 1002828799 2660 136.170.200.133 (11 Oct 2001 19:33:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@news.cam.pace.co.uk NNTP-Posting-Date: 11 Oct 2001 19:33:19 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:14325 Date: 2001-10-11T19:33:19+00:00 List-Id: As a former member of the apparently defunct Ada Standard Component Library Working Group (and one who actually developed a working component for same) I'm not against the notion of contributing effort to a project I think is worth while. That said, I won't be sucked into A Fool's Errand(tm). :-) Unless there were some reasonable consensus that the BCs (or another library) were the appropriate starting point and unless one or more vendors were willing to get behind it, I don't think investing any significant amount of time into it is a good idea. The BCs have been there for a while and have not achieved any sort of "market dominance", so it is unclear that they should become the de facto standard. No compiler vendors are distributing them with their compiler - maybe they know something we don't? I don't think any proposed library is going to become dominant or even be of much use unless some of the vendors will support it. Let's see how it develops.... 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/ "Pascal Obry" wrote in message news:uofnerojv.fsf@wanadoo.fr... > I agree too. But note that the Booch components are Open Source. The work to > put up this library is certainly a big one... Why not just contribute to the > documentation part of the project ? >