RE: [vhdl-200x-ft] New code release

David and all,

If we follow the approach of standardizing the package declarations and not
the bodies, we'll have to describe the semantics of the operations in some
form, such as English prose. (This is currently the approach used for
std.textio.) My preference would be to specify the semantics in VHDL (as
was done in 1164 and 1076.3) since it is a more precise form of
specification.

If you were to offer the package bodies as recommended implementations, that
would beg the question of who is doing the recommending. If it's IEEE (eg,
as a Recommended Practice), the recommendation would have to take the form
of an IEEE standards publication, and so you would not avoid the copyright
issue. If it's VASG, that's part of IEEE, so same applies. If it's some
other organization or individual, then under what authority would they make
such a recommendation?

So unfortunately, I don't think we can realistically avoid the package
bodies being subject to the same IP rules as the package declarations.

Steve, have you and Dennis had an opportunity to follow this up with
Claudio?

Cheers,

PA

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-vhdl-200x-ft@eda.org 
> [mailto:owner-vhdl-200x-ft@eda.org] On Behalf Of David Bishop
> Sent: Tuesday, 24 August 2004 05:37
> To: vhdl-200x-ft@eda.org
> Subject: [vhdl-200x-ft] New code release
> 
> 
> I have updated 
> http://www.eda-twiki.org/vhdl-200x/vhdl-200x-ft/packages/files.html
> again.
> 
> This time I have done the following:
> All packages are now separated from their package bodies.
> All packages have the IEEE copyright header and the copyright 
> constant in them. All package bodies are now "recommended 
> implementations" of the packages, and have had their IEEE 
> headers and copyright data removed.
> 
> Now we only need to publish the packages, not the bodies, and 
> we can leave the package bodies on the web page (Peter, 
> please check). This also decreases the size of the spec.
> 
> All IEEE copyright headers are being removed from all of the 
> test routines as well.  These now cover 98% of the packages, 
> and will cover 100% when I am done.
> 
> Other things done:
> dwrite, dread, and to_dstring functions removed (you will see 
> a new file called "boneyard.vhd" in the directory listing 
> which has these in it (NEVER delete debugged code)) Added 
> to_signed(unsigned) and to_unsigned(signed) to numeric_bit 
> and numeric_std Added sread and swrite procedures to 
> std.textio redesigned hread and oread to be more forgiving.
> 
> 95,285 lines of code and still growing....
>