Re: Status of SDLAda

[Luke A. Guest <laguest@archeia.com>]

Aurele <aurele.vitali@gmail.com> wrote:
>> There is an unfinished binding to the SDL2 library called SDLAda 
> 
> This looks like a "thick" binding to the SDL library:
> 
> https://www.libsdl.org/
> 
> Would having a "thin" binding to the SDL library not have been a better approach?  

No. If you just want to write C in Ada use a thin binding.

And why are the API names all different (what happened to SDL_ from the
name).  

Why the hell would you use C's naming convention in a language that
supports overloading, the reason why C libs add a namespace in function
names is because C can't do overloading.

The name's aren't different! The names may be reorganised based on package,
I.e. SDL.Video.Initialise.

Anyway, nice code.  Does SDLAda offer more than whats already (and used) in
the library? 
> 

Yes, array slices to textures for one, allows sub image copying using Ada
semantics. Also texture iterators, see the moose example.