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,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,deac256a05c84a59 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!news.glorb.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.comcast.com!news.comcast.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 21:58:09 -0600 From: "Steve" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada References: <41900010.D28DD400@boeing.com><9CWjd.17305$5K2.1356@attbi_s03> <1106223415.857525.176640@c13g2000cwb.googlegroups.com> <41F4DB6F.4090909@mailinator.com> <35nh12F4oe4caU1@individual.net> <35pmqtF4iqgimU1@individual.net> Subject: Re: DOM and SAX parsing in Ada Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 19:59:37 -0800 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2180 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2180 X-RFC2646: Format=Flowed; Response Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.22.63.157 X-Trace: sv3-87U+zcvSSxID2/wLbGpDd/DE5III8+7eXfHRYX+NjHjqgxhbMsmr/6LCuJDQS/5yjinPelMmVoIuhBH!097qz8aSvMgWLddexNIS7H1UxFFO9JPAX2D2O6lYbhfPT4cVBN/IjgG1BE9i X-Complaints-To: abuse@comcast.net X-DMCA-Complaints-To: dmca@comcast.net X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.22 Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:8003 Date: 2005-01-26T19:59:37-08:00 List-Id: Your experience differs from mine. I contributed a critical bug fix and an enhancement to XML/Ada which took several months to appear in a public release. Those changes were included in version 1.0. How log have we been stuck on version 1.0 now? Unless AdaCore is more responsive to integrating patches, I think it does merit maintaining a separate CVS tree (sourceforge or elsewhere). Steve (The Duck) "Marc A. Criley" wrote in message news:35pmqtF4iqgimU1@individual.net... > 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