NICE-ESG-Libs Digest Thu, 6 Jul 95 Volume 1 : Issue 276
Today's Topics:
NICE approved contributed library.
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Date: Thu, 6 Jul 1995 11:23:16 +0100 (BST)
From: S M Fisher <S.M.Fisher@letterbox.rl.ac.uk>
Subject: NICE approved contributed library.
To: NICE ESG Library Committee
I also like the idea of a contributed library where contributions have the
GNU license attached to them. (It would be great to have the major part of
ELKS with the same license as a reference for people who wanted to try
better algorithms.)
We should make a point of being better than just an ftp site with an
assortment of pieces which do not fit together.
Christine said "... 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 ... Such donations would therefore be
subject to the same process as the kernel library is currently undergoing."
This would be great but we would then take too long to approve anything.
I would expect contributions to satisfy 3 criteria.
1) They make no use of other classes except for those in ELKS and other
classes already approved for the "NICE approved contributed library"
2) They come with a full test
3) Future modifications could only be made with the agreement of NICE
though of course the author continues to own the code.
All that NICE have to do then is to run the test program on all known
copiler systems which support ELKS. This of course requires that the
Eiffel is written in a dialect which is recognised by all compilers. I
hope that this does not continue to be a problem.
P.S Do we have a test system for ELKS?
Steve F.
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