Re: Ada Components - GRACE Lists

["Marin David Condic" <dont.bother.mcondic.auntie.spam@[acm.org>]

Ted:

If you could e-mail me a copy of what you have, I'd appreciate it. Or post
it somehwere & pass along the URL. Thanks.

As for the name? If this is going to be at all problematic, I suggest just
using a new name. Plenty of names are available without a) risking any
infringement on anyone's trademark and b) confusing any potential users with
a name similar to something else. Maybe its best to avoid this one and pick
something else.

As for #4? Until there's something more substantial, I'd think worrying
about configuration management is unnecessary. Plenty of these sorts of
packages are just posted to a website with somebody volunteering to be the
Keeper Of The Eternal Flame & managing the changes locally. (It ought to be
something that gets pretty stable pretty quickly, don't you think?) If it
gets anywhere & starts expanding, worrying about CVS, etc, might make some
sense down the line.

MDC
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"Ted Dennison" <dennison@telepath.com> wrote in message
news:3C76EE71.40506@telepath.com...
> Marin David Condic wrote:
>
> > Anything happening lately on the GRACE components (lists) that we were
> > discussing here? Has this withered on the vine? Or is there still some
> > interest in getting it done & posted somewhere semi-official?
(AdaPower?)
>
>
> I just got back from my 2 week Olympic vacation and came across this.
>
> The current status as near as I can tell is the following:
>
> 1  We have a spec for unbounded lists.
> 2  I have an implementation, which is mostly tested.
> 3  I have a request in about the name, but only got a response that the
> request was being forwarded. Its tough going because I can't find any
> contact information for the folks who made the old Ada83 "GRACE"
> components. I think they may be essentially dead and gone. Given that,
> and the fact that they trademarked "GRACE" and not "Grace", I think we
> may be OK using the name (at least tenatively during the beta stages),
> but I'm sure some will disagree.
>
> 4  Before releasing what I have, I'm beginning to think the effort
> requires something considerably more formal that what we have been
> working for. In particular, I'd like to see a full-blown CVS-controlled
> project, perhaps hosted on Savannah or AdaPower. This would also allow
> us to take some of the discussion traffic off of the newsgroup, which I
> think some here would be very appreciative of.
>
> Mostly what has been sidetracking progress is that I'd like to do 4, but
> to do it we need some kind of resolution of 3 (I'd imagine changing the
> name of a hosted project would be a real pain).
>
> ---
> T.E.D.
>
> (I survived the 2002 winter olympics)
>
>
>