Re: is ada dead?

[Pascal Obry <p.obry@wanadoo.fr>]

Emmanuel Briot <briot@gnat.com> writes:

> Now, something not related to you.  I see lots of people suggesting that we
> should have lots of Ada applications around to prove that Ada is not
> dead. However, as the co-author of several big packages that were released as
> open-source projects (GtkAda, GVD, XML/Ada, ada-mode for Emacs), I am sorry to
> say that we do not get a lot of patches (certainly less that equivalent C
> projects do).  We do fully appreciate the bug reports, and the few
> suggestions for enhancements, but that doesn't increase the time we have to
> develop the projects!
> 
> I don't know if this is related to the size of the Ada community, or simply a
> lack of a free-software culture in this Ada world, but it would certainly seem
> like the first nice step forward (contributing to existing Ada projects).
> There is also AWS, OpenToken, AdaOS,... so there's probably already something
> you might be interested in and where your knowledge would be much
> appreciated.

I agree 100%.

> It would be interesting to know from the authors of the other packages
> whether they get patches or not.

As one of AWS author I must say that we got some patches from 3 or 4
peoples. But indeed we do not get much. Same for Win32-POSIX, SMTP and others
packages. All this is done on my free time for the Ada community, we have a
rather large community at this point and I think that we should be able to do
some nice stuff together.

As Emmanuel said, there is plenty of active Ada projects in differents field
and certainly everybody should be able to find a project to contribute :)

Pascal.

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