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=-1.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, PP_MIME_FAKE_ASCII_TEXT autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: 103376,15267b2c375b45c2 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-10-19 09:44:36 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news-out1.nntp.be!propagator2-sterling!news-in-sterling.nuthinbutnews.com!cyclone1.gnilink.net!spamkiller2.gnilink.net!nwrdny02.gnilink.net.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: "Stephane Richard" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada References: <3F92BEAA.9030004@comcast.net> Subject: Re: Ada Component Registry proposal X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 Message-ID: Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2003 16:44:35 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 129.44.78.99 X-Complaints-To: abuse@verizon.net X-Trace: nwrdny02.gnilink.net 1066581875 129.44.78.99 (Sun, 19 Oct 2003 12:44:35 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2003 12:44:35 EDT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:1142 Date: 2003-10-19T16:44:35+00:00 List-Id: do send a copy my way :-). if you please Robert. -- St�phane Richard "Ada World" Webmaster http://www.adaworld.com "Robert I. Eachus" wrote in message news:3F92BEAA.9030004@comcast.net... > I put together an XML DOCTYPE for a Ada Component Registry, and tried it > out on GNADE. If anyone who understands XML would like to look at it and > criticize, I'll send you a copy. But right now I consider it too > preliminary to let loose in the wild. I'll probably have a much better > worked out version by the end of next week. (Oops! Mental note to self, > the registry itself needs a version number. ;-) > > I picked GNADE as a test case though, expecting it to be a decent stress > test. Boy was it! For me as well as the XML grammer. I'd like to > comment on a few things that I found and what they mean for a formal > registry, or for the Common Ada Library. > > One of the things that the registry does is makes the Zip or tar or > whatever file that you can download more accessable. Much more > accessable. Amazingly more accessable. GNADE as delivered has over a > dozen directories and if you actually compile it, creates a few more. > (And just to confuse you puts some stuff into existing directories > outside the GNADE structure.) With the registry, you can look and see > that most of the source files are children of GNU.DB, and that package > declaration can be found in > > > -- > Robert I. Eachus > > "Quality is the Buddha. Quality is scientific reality. Quality is the > goal of Art. It remains to work these concepts into a practical, > down-to-earth context, and for this there is nothing more practical or > down-to-earth than what I have been talking about all along...the repair > of an old motorcycle." -- from Zen and the Art of Motorcycle > Maintenance by Robert Pirsig >