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From: Ching Bon Lam <c.lam_REMOVE_THIS@student.utwente.nl>
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Subject: Feasibility/Requirements/Wishes of xAL (was: Standard Library
 Interest?)
Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2003 17:33:40 +0000 (UTC)
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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