Re: DOM and SAX parsing in Ada

["Jeff C" <jcreem@yahoo.com>]

"Nick Roberts" <nick.roberts@acm.org> wrote in message 
news:gemini.iawt1w000svx202ss.nick.roberts@acm.org...
>
> In fact, it's because of AdaCore's 'not invented here' attitude that I
> considered writing an alternative XML parser in the first place.
>
> 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.


Of course you mean to say GMGPL there...

But I am not sure why you are making that statemetn

At http://libre.act-europe.fr/xmlada/

Under the contributing header it says:

 "Contributions to this library are most appreciated, including bug 
reports."

Now, I have only ever submitted really really small things to ACT projects 
(GtkAda) and have never
been turned away.

I suspect that if it was a large contribution that perhaps they would want 
copyright papers signed in some manner (either
granting copyright to ACT or at least affirming that no other party had an 
interest).

Have you ever asked about submitting something large (or better yet actually 
tried to submit something moderate and see what happens)

I also strongly suspect that since this is a product for them that any large 
scale changes would
get a reasonable peer review along with a reasonable number of 
rejections/peer review comments that would be needed
before the item was accepted. This is all quite reasonable.

Even on some of my small patches, the level of comments about the changes 
were nearly equal to the size of the
patch in question (and all perfectly valid comments that were indicative of 
the fact they they are creating libraries for
customers and long term support and I am (in this case) working on a patch 
at 11 PM for no apparent reason in a best effort
type fashion that sometimes works out and sometimes looks like I worked on 
it at 11 PM)