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 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!news-in.ntli.net!newsrout1-win.ntli.net!ntli.net!fr.ip.ndsoftware.net!proxad.net!193.252.118.146.MISMATCH!news.wanadoo.fr!news.wanadoo.fr!not-for-mail Sender: obry@PASCAL Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: DOM and SAX parsing in 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> <1106820016.e20ede44b96063b70b5f6f5503a7b1a9@teranews> From: Pascal Obry Organization: Home - http://www.obry.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 Date: 27 Jan 2005 20:27:24 +0100 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii NNTP-Posting-Host: 82.120.29.188 X-Trace: 1106854048 news.wanadoo.fr 10454 82.120.29.188:3667 X-Complaints-To: abuse@wanadoo.fr Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:8019 Date: 2005-01-27T20:27:24+01:00 List-Id: Martin Krischik writes: > Up until now I only needed to patch one line of XML/Ada for my extensions. So please contribute that patch or tell us more why it was rejected. > So I would be in for a XML/Ada extension pack hostet at i.E. SourceForge. That's a very bad idea to me. 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. 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. 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. 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. Another note. In this thread one guy (can't remember who sorry) talked about CVS write access. This is not 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. Anyway, just my 2 cents ;) Pascal. -- --|------------------------------------------------------ --| Pascal Obry Team-Ada Member --| 45, rue Gabriel Peri - 78114 Magny Les Hameaux FRANCE --|------------------------------------------------------ --| http://www.obry.org --| "The best way to travel is by means of imagination" --| --| gpg --keyserver wwwkeys.pgp.net --recv-key C1082595