Re: DOM and SAX parsing in Ada

[Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@acm.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.

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-- Stephe