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Date: Thu, 06 Jul 1995 14:53:35 +1000 (EST) From: cmingins@insect.sd.monash.edu.au (Christine Mingins) Subject: Donations To: NICE-ESG-Libs@atlanta.twr.com > > Donations: > I think this is a good idea, but have some reservations/qualifications to put: I see in the future that NICE may 'sponsor' or 'endorse' clusters such as time/date/timespan, containers, etc. For this to happen, the classes must be written and presented in conformance to all the stylistic and methodological purity which we apply to our own libraries - (no reflection on your software Frieder, I'm sure it conforms!) Such donations would therefore be subject to the same process as the kernel library is currently undergoing. Another approach would be for NICE to maintain a list of 'donated' libraries, along with the address of the donor, and the ftp site where it is available. This would keep the distinction between classes which have been subject to formal endorsement and others. The 'donation secretary' could maintain the list, and be responsible for some kind of vetting of the donations to make sure they conform to some basic standards before being added to the list. Here at Monash we have developed a 'Quality Suite for Reusable Software' which does just that kind of vetting of Eiffel texts. This could also be a donation.. What does everyone else think? -- Christine > I suggest that Nice should accept donations - small, usefull libraries > which are not important enough to be topic of a discussion. To start > whis this we will supply two libraries for time/date/timespan and > for format. All libraries should be available under all 3 compilers > and should follow the GNU license. > > Maybe we could find someone for the duty of a "donation secretary" ? > > Whats your opinion? > >
