"Jacob Sparre Andersen" wrote in message news:3F61BA28.3060507@crs4.it... > If we can't get the compiler vendors (or ARA) to come up with some > requirements, wouldn't it be a viable alternative to get Ada Europe and > SIGAda to create a common working group for writing the requirements > (and specifications?) for a �Conventional Ada Library�? Of course Ada > Europe and SIGAda do not have the same easy way to force a library on > the programmers as the compiler vendors, but I can't think of any better > solution right now. There is such a WG: http://www.acm.org/sigada/wg/apiwg/ (thanks to Dirk Craeynest for the link)