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Date: Thu, 06 Jul 1995 14:29:08 GMT From: Roger Browne <rogerb@eiffel.demon.co.uk> Subject: Contributed Libraries To: NICE-ESG-Libs@atlanta.twr.com Steve Fisher wrote: > I also like the idea of a contributed library where contributions have the > GNU license attached to them... > We should make a point of being better than just an ftp site with an > assortment of pieces which do not fit together. I strongly agree with the above two statements. > Christine said "... the classes must be written and > presented in conformance to all the stylistic and methodological purity > which we apply to our own libraries..." :-) I don't think NICE is equipped to document, test, distribute, sell, support, endorse or maintain software. But NICE is a standards body, and could use this exercise to promote the spread of standards-conforming Eiffel libraries. I therefore suggest a very simple scheme which we could start with a minimum of effort: (1) NICE maintains a repository of unsupported Eiffel code on an FTP and/or WWW site (called the Eiffel Treasure Chest). (2) Submitted code must be either public domain or subject to the GNU Public License. (3) The code may use only the standard kernel classes plus other classes from the Eiffel Treasure Chest. I don't propose that NICE attempts to test compliance with point (3). If submitted software is dependent upon other classes a user will soon point this out and the code can be removed from the Eiffel Treasure Chest. Regards, Roger -- -- Roger Browne, 6 Bambers Walk, Wesham, PR4 3DG, UK | Ph 01772-687525 -- Everything Eiffel: compilers/libraries/publications | +44-1772-687525
