Re: Development process in the Ada community

["Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>]

Ted Dennison wrote in message
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>tmoran@acm.org wrote in message
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>>   As Randy Brukardt noted the other day, the original idea for Claw
"was to
>> create a de facto standard, make a subset freely available, and
eventually
>> put the binding into the public domain to be a standard."  But it
didn't
>> happen.  Recently someone complained that Claw didn't currently
support
>> several features he needs.  Nobody, to my knowledge, has added
support for
>> X to Claw, but multiple people have created alternative Windows
bindings,
>> none of which has become a standard, and none of which supports the
>
>I would submit that this is because the "release it to the public
>domain" step was never followed through on. If they had done that
>first, instead of planning on doing it last, things might have been
>different.


Couldn't have done that, because it would have left us nothing to
sell -- and thus we'd have been out of business in a hurry. (The ATIP-P
seed money also required a product to sell back to the government to
"recover" the investiment -- which couldn't have been done if there was
no product). We needed the GUI builder to be reasonable before we could
let go of the bindings.

If we hadn't held onto it for the first couple of year, it would never
have gotten to the stability point that it is now. However, it could
have been released a couple of years ago, but by then it was fairly
clear that there was little interest in that.

              Randy.