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From: Pascal Obry
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Subject: Re: why not "standardize" the Booch Components? (was Re: is Ada
dying?)
Date: 11 Oct 2001 22:52:32 +0200
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"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.
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