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,ac39a12d5faf5b14 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-04-17 09:55:23 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail From: dennison@telepath.com (Ted Dennison) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Development process in the Ada community Date: 17 Apr 2002 09:55:22 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com/ Message-ID: <4519e058.0204170855.16950071@posting.google.com> References: <4519e058.0204150645.62003096@posting.google.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 65.115.221.98 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1019062523 5716 127.0.0.1 (17 Apr 2002 16:55:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 17 Apr 2002 16:55:23 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:22664 Date: 2002-04-17T16:55:23+00:00 List-Id: tmoran@acm.org wrote in message news:... > > > X to Claw, but multiple people have created alternative Windows bindings, > > > none of which has become a standard, and none of which supports the > > > features that writer needed. > >I would submit that this is because the "release it to the public > >domain" step was never followed through on. If they had done that > >first, instead of planning on doing it last, things might have been > >different. > And why then have people created, but not built on, multiple > alternative "Open Source" Windows bindings, none of which has become a > standard, and none of which supports the features that writer needed? I'm not too sure what you are referring to here. The ones I'm aware of are: o Claw - Nicely high-level, and compiler portable, but proprietary. o Win32Ada - Free, Comes with every Windows Ada95 compiler I've seen, very low-level (think C in Ada). o GWindows - Free, high-Level, only works with Gnat, only realy supports GUI operations, not all of Win32. o Jewl - GPL (usable only in GPL-ed programs or ones that won't be distributed), *Too* High-level, Probably(?) only works with Gnat. I think the issues here are pretty obvious. The ideal would be something a bit like Claw, but free. Alternatively it would be a bit like GWindows, but with complete Win32 support and compiler-agnostic. -- T.E.D. Home - mailto:dennison@telepath.com (Yahoo: Ted_Dennison) Homepage - http://www.telepath.com/dennison/Ted/TED.html