Re: Ada Component Registry proposal

["Stephane Richard" <stephane.richard@verizon.net>]

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that makes sense to me and that can be done :-).

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"Robert I. Eachus" <rieachus@comcast.net> wrote in message
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> Stephane Richard wrote:
> > Well I'm reviewing it right now :-).  Have you taken a decision on where
> > you'd be putting the copyright as we discussed in emails?
>
> I think the right answer is in both the project description and the
> individual name entries.  Probably make it an optional section in both
> places.  Hmmm.  Maybe better is that it is required for the project,
> even if all it says is "Varies, see components."
>
> I'm also thinking deeply about what you said vis-a-vis uncgi.  Maybe the
> best thing to do is just write a cgi-bin program in Ada, and if
> necessary, convert some of the uncgi routines to Ada to avoid any
> inherent buffer overflow problems.  That would allow me to make the
> actual query screen pure HTML that runs the cgi-bin program to do
> selections.  Of course, for now all I plan is an XML to HTML converter
> that will allow the entire registry to be viewed as pure HTML.
>
> -- 
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>
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