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From: "Marin David Condic" <dont.bother.mcondic.auntie.spam@[acm.org>
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Subject: Re: Announce: Grace project site operational
Date: Mon, 20 May 2002 09:47:53 -0400
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But then you're widening out the scope of Grace. Is Grace a simple library
of useful, general purpose, programming utilities? Or is Grace a software
development kit? I personally would like to see it stick to being just a
collection of useful packages that address general programming problems.
That way, there is some reasonable liklihood that it can become something of
a standard. It also keeps the scope down to something likely to be
achievable within our lifetimes. :-)

I think if someone wanted to produce a tool to generate packages on demand,
this might be a useful thing, but that it probably should not be part of
Grace.

MDC
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"Stephen Leake" <stephen.a.leake.1@gsfc.nasa.gov> wrote in message
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>
> Actually, I think a tool that generates the package on demand _is_ a
> good candidate for Grace. Well, as long as it's written in Ada :).
>