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 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,7ee10ec601726fbf X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-10-11 14:05:16 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!134.222.94.5!npeer.kpnqwest.net!news.edf.fr!not-for-mail From: Pascal Obry Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: why not "standardize" the Booch Components? (was Re: is Ada dying?) Date: 11 Oct 2001 22:52:32 +0200 Organization: Home - http://perso.wanadoo.fr/pascal.obry Sender: obry@PASCAL Message-ID: References: <3BC30674.BA88AAB6@brighton.ac.uk> <9pvv3t$ves$1@news.huji.ac.il> <9q49fc$nh3$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <9q4s5v$2j4$1@nh.pace.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: 163.107.131.41 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: clnews.edf.fr 1002833655 7062 163.107.131.41 (11 Oct 2001 20:54:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: newsadm@news.edf.fr NNTP-Posting-Date: 11 Oct 2001 20:54:15 GMT User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.0.106 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:14330 Date: 2001-10-11T20:54:15+00:00 List-Id: "Marin David Condic" writes: > As a former member of the apparently defunct Ada Standard Component Library > Working Group (and one who actually developed a working component for same) > I'm not against the notion of contributing effort to a project I think is > worth while. I know, so you are certainly a good candidate to help on similar projects :) > > That said, I won't be sucked into A Fool's Errand(tm). :-) Unless there were > some reasonable consensus that the BCs (or another library) were the > appropriate starting point and unless one or more vendors were willing to > get behind it, I don't think investing any significant amount of time into > it is a good idea. The BCs have been there for a while and have not achieved > any sort of "market dominance", so it is unclear that they should become the > de facto standard. No compiler vendors are distributing them with their > compiler - maybe they know something we don't? I don't think any proposed > library is going to become dominant or even be of much use unless some of > the vendors will support it. Well this is a bit the chicken and egg problem ! Without proper documentation the BC could never gets more attention... You seem to want to plan every thing in advance... I think the open projects are more a kind of game-of-life, you launch somehting it eventually die or live ! The point is that more effort is put on a project and more chance there is for it to survive. Just my 2 cents, Pascal. -- --|------------------------------------------------------ --| Pascal Obry Team-Ada Member --| 45, rue Gabriel Peri - 78114 Magny Les Hameaux FRANCE --|------------------------------------------------------ --| http://perso.wanadoo.fr/pascal.obry --| --| "The best way to travel is by means of imagination"