Re: Ada Dot Net ?

[Al Christians <achrist@easystreet.com>]

Preben Randhol wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 31 Mar 2002 00:09:03 -0800, Al Christians wrote:
> >> GtkAda or the other tools
> >
> > Last time I looked at GtkAda, the Windows version of GtkAda depended on
> > the Windows version of Gtk, and the Windows version of Gtk said that it
> > was beta or alpha or developers' code, not intended for production use.
> 
> Are you talking about the 2.0 series? It was just released as was Gtk+
> 2.0, so you must wait a bit for the windows and linux binaries.
> Especially for the windows Gtk+ 2.0 as this is a port.
> 

I go to the GtkAda main page.  From there, there is a link to the Gtk+
home page.  (It looks like GtkAda uses Gtk+) From there, there is a link 
to the Gtk+ and Gimp for Windows page.  That page says:

	"Warnings

        The program(s) might crash unexpectedly or behave otherwise 			
strangely. ...   The stability seems to depend a lot on the 		machine,
display drivers, other software installed,
        and whatnot. ... Many people with ATI Rage Pro cards have 		
complained about display errors.  ... If you have NT 4, and a 			
Microsoft Wheel Mouse, some people tell me GIMP 
	hangs unless you remove the mouse icon from the taskbar, or 			update
the mouse software to the latest version. Go figure." 

I'll admit that GtkAda has made plenty of progress over recent years and
that some of the demos now look very nice.  But these kinds of warnings
and possible mysterious incompatibilities make it not-usable for much
of my work.

No offense.  I know this stuff is hard.  But if they warn me about what
might happen, I have to believe that what they say might happen might 
happen.  My applications are not important enough for me to tell my
users that they have to start deleting other software and tracking down
new drivers.  


Al