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 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-10-10 01:13:43 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.stueberl.de!newspeer1-gui.server.ntli.net!ntli.net!newsfep4-winn.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: Re: Standard Library Interest? References: <3F7F760E.2020901@comcast.net> <3F8035B0.7080902@noplace.com> <3F816A35.4030108@noplace.com> <3F81FBEC.9010103@noplace.com> <6Ingb.30667$541.13861@nwrdny02.gnilink.net> <3F82B4A4.5060301@noplace.com> <3F82F527.3020101@noplace.com> <3F836447.1000800@noplace.com> <3F855056.5020606@noplace.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2003 09:19:20 +0100 NNTP-Posting-Host: 81.98.236.129 X-Complaints-To: abuse@ntlworld.com X-Trace: newsfep4-winn.server.ntli.net 1065773622 81.98.236.129 (Fri, 10 Oct 2003 09:13:42 BST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2003 09:13:42 BST Organization: ntl Cablemodem News Service Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:588 Date: 2003-10-10T09:19:20+01:00 List-Id: Frank wrote: > Hi! > > My idea of a second best solution would be that > -urge the community members not to reinvent weels (like building then-th > container library) in your projects, resuse exisiting libraries (a fairly > well know "best practice" for programmers) Good idea. > -throw your semi-completed projects (those that you gave up because of lack > of time or interest) on the net (perhaps adaworld could provide a "junkyard" > or "dead code" - folder for such things) - giving others who come across the > same inspiration the possibility to continue (if possible :-)). Sourceforge > and similar is not on my mind, I'd rather use Savannah than SF for anything. SF keep changing their T&C's and I've lost track of what's what on there. > I imagine something very much less "official".(How to > handle copyrights I dont know :-) I would be willing to submit some of my work provided I got the ability to work on it and extend it. I would even be willing to hand over my copyright, again providing I got the ability to play with it (also some credit) and it was some kind of group. I will be working in C and Java at Uni (oh, and Hydra), so Ada related work will fall quite considerably. It'd be good if someone else could contribute as the code is likely to be in the "junkyard" for a while. Right now I'm working on a simple raster based graphics lib (no convolutions/filtering, just the ability to manipulate single/groups of pixels), and am almost ready to load and save bitmaps. After that I'm going to finish libpng and add support for that. Chris