Re: Ada Component Registry proposal

From: Robert I. Eachus (rieachus_at_comcast.net)
Date: 10/26/03 

Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2003 18:11:45 GMT

sk wrote:

> Sorry, breaking my intentions. In case you havn't included a
> "field" for dependencies, you probably need to. For example,
> the OpenGL binding depends on AdaBindX.

Right now I have a Requires entry that can include other projects,
compilers, Ada versions, hardware or operating systems. It will
probably get expanded a bit to allow for bindings to non-Ada code to say
what they bind to. (Or that may end up as a different type of entry.
"Binds to" perhaps?)

There is also a category Supports which is similar but different in
intent. If software has been ported to several compilers or several
operating systems, this allows documentation of what versions are known
to be supported. 

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                                                     Robert I. Eachus
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down-to-earth context, and for this there is nothing more practical or 
down-to-earth than what I have been talking about all along...the repair 
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