NICE-ESG-Libs Digest Sat, 18 Feb 95 Volume 1 : Issue 188
Today's Topics:
Publication of the PELKS
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Date: Sat, 18 Feb 95 18:22:10 +0100
From: bertrand@eiffel.fr (Bertrand Meyer @ SOL)
Subject: Publication of the PELKS
To: NICE-Board@atlanta.twr.com, NICE-ESG-Libs@atlanta.twr.com, marc@eiffel.fr
To: nice.board nice.lib
Reply-to: bertrand@eiffel.fr
Subject: Publication of the PELKS
Copy to: marc
From: Bertrand Meyer
Mailer: BOOM
A practical point in response to Steve Tynor: ISE has never
refused an opportunity to have a technical meeting.
ISE would be delighted to play host to a library meeting,
for example during TOOLS USA.
On the more fundamental issue: last summer the NICE library
committee, after extensive work by many people, approved
a document as the starting point for the kernel library
standard. One of the ideas in the document was
that of vintage: the standard is evolutionary, and there
is an upgrade each year, as with a software product.
To establish the credibility of Eiffel, we need a published
document. That document can have all the precautionary notes
to allay Steve's fears. It could for example be called
``Proposed Eiffel Library Kernel Standard'' and have an
introduction stating that it is published for discussion.
This is a win-win situation:
- Nothing is cast in concrete. Discussions can continue
for vintage 96.
- We establish our image as a standard-conscious group.
- We broaden the scope of interested people and potential
contributors.
Publishing this document now is a key step towards establishing
the credibility of Eiffel.
Note that the document is available by FTP to anyone who cares
to access it. Nobody has objected to that availability. Publishing
it in book form is a difference of degree, not nature.
-- BM
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