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=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 11232c,f8c029da202116ff X-Google-Attributes: gid11232c,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,ac39a12d5faf5b14 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-04-15 19:38:09 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.gtei.net!newscon02.news.prodigy.com!newsmst01.news.prodigy.com!prodigy.com!postmaster.news.prodigy.com!newssvr17.news.prodigy.com.POSTED!f42a227d!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3CBB8F4E.6BAE9D2@flash.net> From: Gary Scott Reply-To: scottg@flash.net Organization: Home X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en]C-DIAL (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,misc.misc Subject: Re: Development process in the Ada community References: <3CB46975.90408@snafu.de> <3CB7E244.4090105@snafu.de> <2dWMkL$GpNnq@eisner.encompasserve.org> <3CB85658.5050406@snafu.de> <8YmWznELCFXQ@eisner.encompasserve.org> <3CB8F2A1.B2D22FEB@flash.net> <33dba7aa95382e0493b3c567d19d4c0e.48257@mygate.mailgate.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit NNTP-Posting-Host: 64.48.221.182 X-Complaints-To: abuse@prodigy.net X-Trace: newssvr17.news.prodigy.com 1018924648 ST000 64.48.221.182 (Mon, 15 Apr 2002 22:37:28 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 22:37:28 EDT X-UserInfo1: Q[R_PJSCTS@USWTXZBNJOFL@YB\@QAPDLXUNNHPHBATBTSUBYFWEAE[YJLYPIWKHTFCMZKVMB^[Z^DOBRVVMOSPFHNSYXVDIE@X\BUC@GTSX@DL^GKFFHQCCE\G[JJBMYDYIJCZM@AY]GNGPJD]YNNW\GSX^GSCKHA[]@CCB\[@LATPD\L@J\\PF]VR[QPJN Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 02:37:28 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:22579 misc.misc:6361 Date: 2002-04-16T02:37:28+00:00 List-Id: Kent Paul Dolan wrote: > > "Gary Scott" wrote: > > As to an upgraded GKS, the standards committee is always open to new > membership. If I were actually qualified to join one, I'd probably join J3. But since I'm not, I'll just stand on the sidelines and criticize. > > This little tidbit will prove interesting: > > Binding Status: The Ada binding to GKS (GKS/Ada) is an ANSI/ISO > standard. > > Documentation: The ANSI GKS/Ada Binding is published by ANSI as document > #X3.124.3. The International Standard is published as ISO 8651-3. To > inquire about availability of either standard, contact: ANSI, 1430 > Broadway, New York, > NY 10018; tel (sales): 212/354-3300; general: 212/354-3300 I have copies of everything except VDI (didn't know about it). At one time, I was thinking of writing a binding subset for windows that was compliant, for my own use. The only product I was aware of at the time was by Ematek (bought a product called GSS I think) but it was way too expensive. I don't think they offer it any more. Anyway, I do tend to pattern most of the libraries I design somewhat on the general design of GKS and GDDM. I try to design them more or less language independent as well, but at least such that it is trivial to create bindings to other languages. GDDM does that by using a generic binary RPC-like interface. -- Gary Scott mailto:scottg@flash.net mailto:webmaster@fortranlib.com http://www.fortranlib.com Support the GNU Fortran G95 Project: http://g95.sourceforge.net