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: 103376,7624df5e57d09688 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-06-09 14:16:16 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news.airnews.net!cabal11.airnews.net!216.166.61.5.MISMATCH!border1.nntp.aus1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!nntp3.aus1.giganews.com!bin8.nnrp.aus1.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Sender: Stephe@TAKVER Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: config files proposal References: <3CFF15E7.9A697B40@cs.tu-berlin.de> <3D00767D.9020100@airmail.net> <4519e058.0206070712.7135a49b@posting.google.com> From: Stephen Leake Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-GC-Trace: gv1-6rI8st7IlFgaQUQEh2fZqX954/H8TYE+BwpgdU= NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 09 Jun 2002 16:16:00 CDT Organization: Giganews.Com - Premium News Outsourcing X-Trace: sv3-mShfVNTI8BWGJWVLZ6SivpkvJEZw+LNU3bXcCBfAAR/UTAEnKdlusm09rcX5iKSSTWue96c+VGDX7jp!FiNf4SfAj6UM5pLfYJbOvUeDw2Yo4XkSjLMQXzbFOt8Z9DDupTPQVQ== X-Complaints-To: abuse@comcast.com X-DMCA-Complaints-To: dmca@comcast.net X-Abuse-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly Date: Sun, 09 Jun 2002 21:16:00 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:25627 Date: 2002-06-09T21:16:00+00:00 List-Id: dennison@telepath.com (Ted Dennison) writes: > However, I think it would be a big mistake to make rigid compatability > with Windows' .ini files a goal. For one thing, many if not most Ada > programs do not run on Windows. Possibly true, but not really relevant. If it's a good format, it will be useful on non-Windows systems. Perhaps you are implying "and therefore many people will not be familiar with this format". That is probably true. But it's easy to figure out! > For another, that file format is in thrall to Microsoft, and is > probably only defined in Microsoft copyrighted documents, if at all. > Anything we come up with will have to be something we can define > with precision in the new LRM, without having to worry about > violating anyone's copyright, or having the format change out from > under us at the whim of one (non-Ada) vendor. Hmm. I'm not a copyright lawyer, but it seems like we can simply define a syntax that looks like ini files. As long as we don't actually read Microsoft documents in the process, we should be ok. That's what the MingW people did for the Windows headers files. But we should probably ask a lawyer about that, as has been said about similar topics here recently. -- -- Stephe