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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,88ed72d98e6b3457,start X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-10-04 17:04:04 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!lnsnews.lns.cornell.edu!newsstand.cit.cornell.edu!ngpeer.news.aol.com!newsfeed1!bredband!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsgate.cistron.nl!news.cambrium.nl!news.cambrium.nl!news.cambrium.nl!news2.euro.net!newspeer1-gui.server.ntli.net!ntli.net!newsfep4-glfd.server.ntli.net.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: chris User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20030925 Thunderbird/0.3 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Standard Library Interest? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Sun, 05 Oct 2003 01:09:21 +0100 NNTP-Posting-Host: 81.98.236.164 X-Complaints-To: abuse@ntlworld.com X-Trace: newsfep4-glfd.server.ntli.net 1065312243 81.98.236.164 (Sun, 05 Oct 2003 01:04:03 BST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 05 Oct 2003 01:04:03 BST Organization: ntl Cablemodem News Service Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:241 Date: 2003-10-05T01:09:21+01:00 List-Id: Hi, Recent discussions with Marin David Condic /suggest/ the development of some kind of standard library independant of the ARM, but hopefully endorsed by vendors and the ARG, would be a worthwhile endeavour. Assuming such a library could be created and was attractive to the community, vendors and the ARG what would people want of such a library? What would you want to see available that wasn't going to feature in the next language revision and didn't quite fit with the long revision times for the standard? What would you like available that was portable across platforms for software development? I wasn't going to suggest anything as a) I don't want to put words/ideas in peoples' mouths/heads and b) my interests are highly multimedia orientated but perhaps including some of the following: XML support Unicode processing library Support for common image formats* Support for common audio formats and audio playback* (free formats) *with the ability to extend support for other formats. XML and Unicode support don't quite fit within the language standard because they change more frequently, but IMO it'd be nice to have some standardised support for both of these things. Note with unicode I am thinking about things like normalisation, etc. The idea is to have something that developers can look to on compilers for general software development, particularly on the desktop. If developers need it, it will be there and they don't have to look around as much for the facilities they need. So, what facilities do you need that perhaps could go in such a library? Chris