From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,4b27f494a96e0530 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.comcast.com!news.comcast.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2004 19:34:09 -0500 From: David Botton Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2004 20:34:10 -0400 Message-ID: <2004101020341075249%david@bottoncom> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: Re: A community Windows binding User-Agent: Unison/1.5.2 NNTP-Posting-Host: 66.176.74.83 X-Trace: sv3-QuDmZga4TpDcjFqp/qzK8jp+N4DA80obbn7ZLonHUo+4+n5mFOVtaQSKcX3NEpeWa7JSa1wZOAi1jOw!YDoKBUVm1t3KxaNq4j25jfP9j8Pu9oz62fGaPHYVL+asbwOOTOni/zQzcdAbRw== X-Complaints-To: abuse@comcast.net X-DMCA-Complaints-To: dmca@comcast.net X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.19 Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:5019 Date: 2004-10-10T20:34:10-04:00 List-Id: If the decision is to make GWindows the base, I would suggest moving the discussion (at least for the time being) to the GNAVI list where GWindows / GNATCOM has been supported up to now. I would like to be the other SysAdmin if there is no objection :-) David Botton On 2004-10-10 14:05:57 -0400, Stephen Leake said: > Given the response so far, it is clear there is much more support for > using GWindows as the base of a "community Windows binding" than CLAW. > > Also, it seems clear that SourceForge is the platform to use. Using > Gnu Arch is appealing, but it requires that each developer open their > machines to outside access. I'd rather let SourceForge worry about the > security implications of that. The other hosts suggested don't seem as > well supported as SourceForge. > > Before I actually create a SourceForge project, I'd like to get at > least one other developer to commit to being a sysadmin on the > project. I don't think being sysadmin will take much time; it mostly > consists of setting up accounts for developers. When we get to doing > releases, there will be more work, but we can deal with that then. > > Another minor issue is the name of the project. > We want to host GWindows code (no need to change the name of that > package). > > Also the Gnatcom code? I'm not clear if this is available anywhere > other than AdaPower, or if it needs a CVS project. > > And possibly a version of Ada.Collections, until they become widely > available from vendors. We should start using that for any collection > needs in GWindows. Or we could just redistribute a .tar.gz of Matthew > Heaney's current stuff. > > And possibly other GUI/Windows related packages in the future; maybe a > separate database binding, or a GUI builder, etc. > > So perhaps GWindows is not the best name for the SourceForge project. > > Let's have a short discussion on this, then I'll set up the project > next weekend, and we can start using that mailing list for any other > issues. > > For my part, I actually think we should use GWindows; it's currently a > recognized name, and is general enough to mean "Anything Open Source > in Ada related to Windows".