Re: DOM and SAX parsing in Ada
From: Stephen Leake (stephen_leake_at_acm.org)
Date: 01/28/05
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Date: 28 Jan 2005 04:57:12 -0500 To: comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org
Pascal Obry <pascal@obry.org> writes:
> Martin Krischik <martin@krischik.com> writes:
>
> > So I would be in for a XML/Ada extension pack hostet at i.E. SourceForge.
>
> That's a very bad idea to me.
Some of us agree, but you have not addressed the issue that, for
XML/Ada at least, contributions are not available in a timely way.
> Better to have one strong Ada tools that zillions of
> not-well-supported forked ones. It is fine to have another project
> to build an XML parser in Ada but for me a fork is really bad and
> should happen only if there is *big* maintenance problem.
Waiting a year for a contribution to be generally available counts as
a "big" problem for me.
> One good point on the Ada side is the strong standard. We really
> want to build on this. Not a lot of libraries but some good, well
> documented, safe ones that does the job.
We all agree with that.
> Personally I would not like to find an AWS fork. I've tried (and
> will continue to) to work with the contributors to have patches
> integrated. But it is true that patches are not always very easy to
> integrate and requires some changes.
We all agree with that as well.
> Note that I know well the main XML/Ada maintainer and can tell you
> that if a patch is not integrated yet there is certainly good
> reasons.
The issue is, after a patch is integrated, how long is it before it is
available to others?
> Another note. In this thread one guy (can't remember who sorry) talked about
> CVS write access.
That was me; it appeared to be an issue for Nick Roberts.
> This is not serious.
I'm not clear what you mean here; I was certainly "serious".
> To have a write access to a project you really want to become part
> of the project team, take responsibilities for part of it... and of
> course you can't keep the copyright, this would be a problem for the
> product in the long term.
Ok, so you mean "it is not reasonable to grant write access to
everyone who makes a contribution". That's fine.
However, it is necessary for _everyone_ to have read access to a CVS
repository, if you want to encourage comtributions to that repository.
-- -- Stephe
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