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=-1.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, PP_MIME_FAKE_ASCII_TEXT autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: 103376,c78684b2d4add105 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-10-13 02:58:34 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!small1.nntp.aus1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!cyclone1.gnilink.net!spamkiller2.gnilink.net!nwrdny01.gnilink.net.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: "Stephane Richard" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada References: <3F88D5E3.9010702@comcast.net> <3F897415.6030804@noplace.com> <3F89DB96.80708@comcast.net> <3F89E5C5.80804@noplace.com> <3F89F96F.5050003@comcast.net> Subject: Re: Feasibility/Requirements/Wishes of xAL (was: Standard Library Interest?) X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 Message-ID: Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2003 09:58:32 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 141.149.78.169 X-Complaints-To: abuse@verizon.net X-Trace: nwrdny01.gnilink.net 1066039112 141.149.78.169 (Mon, 13 Oct 2003 05:58:32 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2003 05:58:32 EDT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:772 Date: 2003-10-13T09:58:32+00:00 List-Id: "Robert I. Eachus" wrote in message news:3F89F96F.5050003@comcast.net... > > I don't want the (possibly volunteer) developers spending all their time > dealing with naming issues--which as I pointed out can include trademark > and copyright issues. That is the stuff that formal standards > committees can be good at. Look at all the chaos caused by AdaPower > once the site was no longer maintained. Having an authority to resolve > naming disputes is very helpful when it comes time to clear the underbrush. *** Indeed it can get very complicated to manage those trademark and copyright issues and as for naming, I can imagine for example - Format as a Text Formatting string - Format as an OS service to format a floppy drive or hard drive - Format as Method of an object that produces an output. All three with trademarks ;-). How much coffee would be needed to resolve that one? ;-). In our library, provided these 3 situations are in 3 branches of our Tree or at least in 3 ramifications of the same branch, there would be no conflicts right? Another situation I wonder about. Let's say GtkAda is registered already along with it's hiearchy of libraries that form the GtkAda Project. Then I decide to add to that library (say a series of controls for a Music studio software, like knobs, led indicators, mixer slider controls, etc etc). and I want those registered in the library. Who would be making the decision? GtkAda, the committee, would I need to put it elsewhere in the tree, would every big library like GtkAda need to have a "contributions" branch under it for this kind of addition? > > But again, as I said, it is useless without a group of developers who > want to do things right. With active developers using it, it becomes > one of those committees where the chair does several hours of work a > week. Everyone else on the committee does a couple hours of work every > three or four months, when the chairperson actually needs the committee > to make an official decision. > *** Are you saying that it would take 3 or 4 months to reach a decision for every issue? or that every 3 or 4 months, the committee would take every in the past 3 or 4 months and resolve them? > -- > Robert I. Eachus > > "Quality is the Buddha. Quality is scientific reality. Quality is the > goal of Art. It remains to work these concepts into a practical, > down-to-earth context, and for this there is nothing more practical or > down-to-earth than what I have been talking about all along...the repair > of an old motorcycle." -- from Zen and the Art of Motorcycle > Maintenance by Robert Pirsig > -- St�phane Richard "Ada World" Webmaster http://www.adaworld.com