Re: Ada package registry?

[olivier.henley@gmail.com]

@ M. Brukardt:

1. You can look at it the way you want, the end result of something like code.dlang.org or haskell stack is more neat, efficient, structured, coherent and appealing than the noisy search engine at AdaIC. (I entered the term physic ... OMG It was disastrous. Nothing relevant. I even tried to find that search utility directly from google. It was like a detective quest!) Arguing the opposite is, IMO, like arguing that the earth is flat. 

2. You use way too much strong words like harmful and insult, to nuke a PM/PR proposition. I get it that you are a tenor of the Ada community but it does not qualify you to serve what I call 'toxic arguments'. IMHO, your statu quo and orthodoxy deeply anchored in 'has been' technology poses much more of a drag to the Ada pipelines than the envisioning of a PM for Ada; for future, open source, pure Ada code projects.

3. By not acting to attract people, you are constantly redirecting smart young people to other communities, e.g Dlang. Many clever pals want to ditch C++ and Ada would be a perfect fit to foster them. Wont happen with loud voices like yours 'bullying' sensible propositions around. (I work at Ubisoft Montreal. Yesterday my boss was asking about my website and I told him I did it in Ada. You know what he asked me: 'Ada... is it not an old programming language?'. By old he meant dead; Ada needs a nice haircut.) To me it looks like you want to keep Ada and the accompanying discourse for yourself. Am I wrong?

4. A PM/PR ... yeah it is for open source projects. If you took the time to check code.dlang you would have get it from the start. You can keep your proprietary stuff for you alone, on your MUCH better VCS system than what is in main use. Oh btw, I myself solved the problem for a quantum computer. It is in my basement... but I cant show you its proprietary stuff and I lost the key to enter the vault too... sorry.

5. Would you mind stop musing about your realizations and views of the world in precise topic forum threads. It slides the discussion into 'not constructive land'. Thank you.

6. All your knowledge about software architecture, maybe you could put it to good use by writing a book and/or making free software so people like me could study your code and learn. If you already did please direct me. 

My one cent... to put my false humility on the back of deflation.