Ada2005 binding to Qt4

Ada2005 binding to Qt4

[Yves Bailly]

Hello all,

I'm quite pleased to announce the 0.1.0 release of Qt4Ada, a hand-made thick
binding in Ada2005 to Qt 4.2.x. See http://qt4ada.sourceforge.net for more
details, grab the archive from
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=173821&package_id=199116&release_id=470160

Qt4Ada is still in early stages, so it still lacks 95% of Qt features.
However the 14 tutorials have been re-coded in pure Ada, so I guess
it's already usable for very small and simple programs.

From now on:
- my primary goal will be to provide as much widgets as possible, which will
  be achieved by re-coding the "widgets" examples;
- the building structure needs improvements, so I'll start by trying to
  recreate a (basic) qmake-like tool;
- the signals/slots implementation mostly works, though it's not quite
  satisfactory, as already pointed by Vadim - in fact, it's the whole meta-
  objects structures that should be ported to Ada.

As I don't have much time to work on Qt4Ada, choices have to be made. The
last point (about signals/slots), while annoying, is not my top priority for
now. However any actual and concrete contribution would be much appreciated.

This library is released under the CeCILLv2 license, a french, GPLv2-
compatible, open-source license (see http://www.cecill.info/index.en.html).
I still have plans to provide an alternative license, allowing to use Qt4Ada
in closed-source software, much like Qt is itself distributed. This double-
licensing should not be done in the near future, but any comments or ideas
about it are welcome.

Grab it, compile it, enjoy it (I hope) and provide feedback!

Please don't be too hard, I still lack experience in Ada programming ;-)

Regards,

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