Re: DOM and SAX parsing in Ada

["Marc A. Criley" <mcNOSPAM@mckae.com>]

Nick Roberts wrote:
> 
> My understanding is that, although XML/Ada is released under the GPL, any
> changes I made (or anyone not an AdaCore employee) would not be merged back
> into the AdaCore branch (because that would contaminate the copyright purity
> of their code, apparently). If I were to develop a copy of XML/Ada (on
> SourceForge, say), it would be a permanent fork.

Well, from personal experience I can attest (and others in this thread 
have done likewise) that XML/Ada bugs I've reported have been accepted 
by AdaCore and been fixed in the code base.

(I've also submitted patches for GtkAda's Glade and those have gone 
right in as well.)

Contributions to GNAT itself might need to undergo a more rigorous 
review process before getging in, since that's AdaCore's family jewels, 
but there's ample experience with most of the other AdaCore products 
(GtkAda, GPS, ASIS-for-GNAT, and XML/Ada) demonstraing that AdaCore 
developers readily accept bug reports and patches, take them seriously, 
and incorporate them into the products.

Marc