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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,cab8c1b14008e0d1 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-02-19 04:19:02 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!nntp.cs.ubc.ca!logbridge.uoregon.edu!newsfeed.vmunix.org!newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de!newsmm00.sul.t-online.com!t-online.de!news.t-online.com!not-for-mail From: "Martin Krischik" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: No Ada in OpenSource? Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2003 18:56:20 +0100 Organization: never organized Message-ID: References: <3E4E7533.417E8AE1@tsoft.com> <3E4F9206.10308@earthlink.net> <3E511C80.7000604@cogeco.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: news.t-online.com 1045657015 03 30498 qqiiEicXSUYyRr 030219 12:16:55 X-Complaints-To: abuse@t-online.com X-Sender: 05341395658-0001@t-dialin.net User-Agent: Pan/0.13.0 (The whole remains beautiful) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:34223 Date: 2003-02-18T18:56:20+01:00 List-Id: On Mon, 17 Feb 2003 12:31:44 +0000, Warren W. Gay VE3WWG wrote: > Marc A. Criley wrote: >> Yuri wrote: >> For whatever reason, the majority of Ada open source projects reside in >> places other than Source Forge, such as www.adapower.com. > Not everyone likes to do development "publicly". I for example, > keep my sources under my own CVS tree in the privacy of my > own home, and then make public releases at various points in > time. This way I can make all kinds of embarassing mistakes > and wild experiments, and nobody need know about it ;-) You can make embarassing mistakes even when releasing software. And then ist is quite good to see in the statistics that no one ever downloaded version 1.1.0 ;-) And when somebody downloads a version without tag from the cvs archives, it is realy his problem isn't it? > This works for me, since I am working alone in a "hobby > mode" of sorts. At some point in the future, I'll likely > gravitate to the Source Forge in order to provide better > support and allow collaboration. For now, I need the simplicity > of working quietly at home. I think Source Forge is quite cool and I never regret moving my hobby project there. With Regards Martin -- Martin Krischik mailto://krischik@users.sourceforge.net http://adacl.sourceforge.net