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=-0.4 required=5.0 tests=AC_FROM_MANY_DOTS,BAYES_00 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 11232c,e59a9d893a249e86 X-Google-Attributes: gid11232c,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,ac39a12d5faf5b14 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-04-20 07:52:36 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeeds.belnet.be!news.belnet.be!psinet-eu-nl!psiuk-p4!uknet!psiuk-p3!uknet!psiuk-n!news.pace.co.uk!nh.pace.co.uk!not-for-mail From: "Marin David Condic" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,misc.misc Subject: Re: Outside view (still): Development process in the Ada community Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2002 14:58:11 -0400 Organization: Posted on a server owned by Pace Micro Technology plc Message-ID: References: <3CB46975.90408@snafu.de> <5ee5b646.0204171415.18ac5e85@posting.google.com> <99c4aee4a9ea33ca8fbe1e634b3b4f14.48257@mygate.mailgate.org> <3CBE49C4.99CFA22D@adaworks.com> <3CC05650.5060908@snafu.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: dhcp-200-133.miami.pace.co.uk X-Trace: nh.pace.co.uk 1019242693 16366 136.170.200.133 (19 Apr 2002 18:58:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@news.cam.pace.co.uk NNTP-Posting-Date: 19 Apr 2002 18:58:13 GMT X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:22816 misc.misc:6723 Date: 2002-04-19T18:58:13+00:00 List-Id: Other than issues of time and money, I don't see why it *can't* work. Here's the thing: I could put up a web page and declare myself the Informal Ada Conventions Consortium and declare "Henceforth, the following packages are considered to be Official IACC standards and all Ada implementations need to include them in order to be conformant!" What weight does it carry? That's why it would need some kind of committee of concerned citizens under the aegis of SIGAda (or some other organization) with some pretty strong willingness on the part of vendors to buy into it. The process needs to be agile and probably needs to yield reference implementations rather than just specifications, or it isn't likely to effectively get anything into various compiler distributions.You'd like to think that perhaps it could produce some sort of new extension to the library, say, every 6 months? That might do a lot to make it reactive to the needs of the community & move Ada closer to the capabilities of its competitors. Of course, getting any of this off bottom-dead-center is a difficult thing. It would require some corporate and institutional support, both for the concept and by way of some finances. Is that likely to happen? MDC -- Marin David Condic Senior Software Engineer Pace Micro Technology Americas www.pacemicro.com Enabling the digital revolution e-Mail: marin.condic@pacemicro.com "Michael Erdmann" wrote in message news:3CC05650.5060908@snafu.de... > > May be we can adopt this some how to establish an ada enhancment > process? > >