From: Ching Bon Lam <c.lam_REMOVE_THIS@student.utwente.nl>
Subject: Feasibility/Requirements/Wishes of xAL (was: Standard Library Interest?)
Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2003 17:33:40 +0000 (UTC)
Date: 2003-10-09T17:33:40+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Xns940FC6E7E7DABcblamstudentutwenten@130.89.1.105> (raw)
I think that there are more than a dozen ppl interested in some standard
library, which i will call xAL for fun. xAL of course stands for x Ada
Library, analogous to Ada0X :).
I want to discuss about the requirements of the library, and the wishes
of the developers that either program the library or use the library for
his own project.
I'll start with some requirements:
- some system for documentation. Something like python or java
documentation. The kind that you can browse with your browser. I kinda
like that.
- a style guide. The style guide provides rules and guidelines how to
format your code. Result should be consistent formatting and naming in
the code.
- reviewers. People who review the code that developers want to be
included in the library. Because we only want quality code, don't we? The
question here is: what is quality code and what isn't?
- using proven code. Reinventing the wheel is time consuming and it
allows the bugs to introduce themself.
And some wishes:
- portability. It's nice to run it on many platforms. But please, no
preprocessing stuff. That's horrible
- CORBA. If all components have a CORBA idl interface, other programming
languages can use the library too without too much hassle.
- lots of developers. How to lure them?
What do you think of it? What requirements and/or wishes would you like
to see to be added?
CBL
next reply other threads:[~2003-10-09 17:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-10-09 17:33 Ching Bon Lam [this message]
2003-10-09 18:22 ` Feasibility/Requirements/Wishes of xAL (was: Standard Library Interest?) Martin Dowie
2003-10-09 18:29 ` Stephane Richard
2003-10-10 16:18 ` Martin Dowie
2003-10-11 7:48 ` Martin Krischik
2003-10-12 11:13 ` Ching Bon Lam
2003-10-11 21:56 ` Ching Bon Lam
2003-10-12 4:18 ` Robert I. Eachus
2003-10-12 15:32 ` Marin David Condic
2003-10-12 16:51 ` Stephane Richard
2003-10-12 23:29 ` Marin David Condic
2003-10-12 22:54 ` Robert I. Eachus
2003-10-12 23:37 ` Marin David Condic
2003-10-13 1:02 ` Robert I. Eachus
2003-10-13 9:58 ` Stephane Richard
2003-10-13 19:58 ` Robert I. Eachus
2003-10-13 20:57 ` Stephane Richard
2003-10-13 12:13 ` Marin David Condic
2003-10-12 13:57 ` Freejack
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