Re: Ada Component Registry proposal

["Alexandre E. Kopilovitch" <aek@vib.usr.pu.ru>]

Robert I. Eachus wrote:

> No intent to exclude anyone, but XML is still not all that common a 
> language, and I felt the intersection of those who knew XML well enough 
> to comment, and were also interested in the registry project would be 
> pretty small.

Yes, this is most probably true - both things are doubtful: XML does not seem
good notation, it is probably worse that many programming languages in this
respect... perhaps there should be translators *into* XML; as for the registry
project, it is still unclear why it will be more useful than, say, AdaPower,
and whether it has chances to survive.

>  Hmmm.  Actually, why not?  Here is the current XML 
> DOCTYPE, and the start of the registry declaration.

>From what is presented so far, I conclude that the registry will contain only
one major kind of entities - Projects. I think that this is wrong way to go,
because such a registry will not differ fundamentally from corresponding part
of AdaPower (still most successful Ada-oriented website), and will suffer from
the same principal problems (yes, it may be equipped with various technical,
legal and procedural elements, but all that will not save the thing).

I think that any really useful and alive registry of this kind should contain
also 2 other major kinds of entities: 1) reviews and 2) design patterns.



Alexander Kopilovitch                      aek@vib.usr.pu.ru
Saint-Petersburg
Russia