Re: ARG asks Ada Community for API Proposals.

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

Not a bad idea, but a granularity of 10 years is not going to make Ada very
reactive to changing needs. I'd imagine an update cycle of 1 year being
about as long as it ought to go. Also, you'd want to consider that some
sections of the library might be highly stable while other sections might go
through more revisions/extensions. Would it be better to maintain them all
as separate things rather than house them all under an "Ada03" or "Ada04"
root? It might be more conducive to maintaining multiple versions/levels of
libraries with substantially different capabilities.

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"Dale Stanbrough" <dstanbro@bigpond.net.au> wrote in message
news:dstanbro-AB7971.22342925052002@mec2.bigpond.net.au...
>
> Perhaps we should have a package structure that includes versioning
> information...
>
>    e.g.
>
>       package Ada95 is end;
>       package Ada95.Containers is...
>
>       package Ada05 is end;
>       package Ada05.Containers is...
>
> to allow for different language features. This would allow for
> upgrades in the future while not requiring existing code to be
> modified.
>
> Do we have access to the list of features that have been proposed
> for Ada0Y?
>
> Dale