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-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,cab8c1b14008e0d1 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-02-17 09:35:17 PST Message-ID: <3E511C80.7000604@cogeco.ca> From: "Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20021120 Netscape/7.01 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: No Ada in OpenSource? References: <3E4E7533.417E8AE1@tsoft.com> <3E4F9206.10308@earthlink.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2003 12:31:44 -0500 NNTP-Posting-Host: 198.96.47.195 X-Complaints-To: abuse@sympatico.ca X-Trace: news20.bellglobal.com 1045503104 198.96.47.195 (Mon, 17 Feb 2003 12:31:44 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2003 12:31:44 EST Organization: Bell Sympatico Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!cyclone.bc.net!torn!webster!nf1.bellglobal.com!nf2.bellglobal.com!news20.bellglobal.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:34172 Date: 2003-02-17T12:31:44-05:00 List-Id: Marc A. Criley wrote: > Yuri wrote: >> Are there any OpenSource projects in Ada ? >> I looked through ports repository in FreeBSD >> and didnt' find any except Ada related like >> adasockets or bindings to GTK. > > For whatever reason, the majority of Ada open source projects reside in > places other than Source Forge, such as www.adapower.com. > > Marc A. Criley > Quadrus Corporation > www.quadruscorp.com Not everyone likes to do development "publicly". I for example, keep my sources under my own CVS tree in the privacy of my own home, and then make public releases at various points in time. This way I can make all kinds of embarassing mistakes and wild experiments, and nobody need know about it ;-) This works for me, since I am working alone in a "hobby mode" of sorts. At some point in the future, I'll likely gravitate to the Source Forge in order to provide better support and allow collaboration. For now, I need the simplicity of working quietly at home. On the weekend I encountered a text mode application that performs "LATIN-to-ENGLISH DICTIONARY" lookups, and was encouraged to see that it was written in Ada. While this is "free shareware" (with sources available), it is one of many obscure examples of applications throughout the wonderful www. See: http://users.erols.com/whitaker/words.htm If you know where to look, you can find Open Sourced Ada in all corners of the world-wild-web. -- Warren W. Gay VE3WWG http://home.cogeco.ca/~ve3wwg