Re: Listing currently maintained libraries for Ada

[Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com>]

i3text@gmail.com writes:

> On Thursday, June 14, 2012 10:37:59 PM UTC-7, Jeffrey Carter wrote:
>> A mature library will be useful but see no 
>> "maintenance activity" because there is no longer anything to change.
>
> This is actually the first time I've seen someone take this position,
> so I've been thinking about when it might be true.

That's kind of a sad commentary on the state of the art, isn't it?
If you're not constantly fixing bugs (and adding new ones?) people
consider your project "dead".

Nonetheless, your list is useful.

> However, my "activity" criterion was chosen for two reasons. First, I
> take it as axiomatic that no software achieves perfection.

Didn't Donald Knuth announce at some point that TeX was "done" or
"bug free" or some such?  And therefore gave it a version number
of "exactly pi"?

Anyway, you're talking about software you might download from the net.
If you buy a Boeing 7N7, you don't download the flight control software
from the net.  ;-)

- Bob