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-Thread: 103376,2b315b117e4c5bae X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!news.glorb.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.comcast.com!news.comcast.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 12:00:34 -0600 From: tmoran@acm.org Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Source code of large programs wanted References: <421f426a$0$13235$9b4e6d93@newsread4.arcor-online.net> X-Newsreader: Tom's custom newsreader Message-ID: <4d6dnTPigs5f-oLfRVn-gw@comcast.com> Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 12:00:34 -0600 NNTP-Posting-Host: 67.161.24.234 X-Trace: sv3-8a8SzfYcydftz/uDv2SUcepNzB+t1aMwpck3xly7dLARpRoYjKUFz2B/Xvp2Vuk4NxLr6ZaMun1QVW0!Lt6FLwARZuSx/7NVIElpXpNtMoOwkj6EehLbVZ/jwL45cmv1lvPvf8zwHbomug== X-Complaints-To: abuse@comcast.net X-DMCA-Complaints-To: dmca@comcast.net X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.31 Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:8496 Date: 2005-02-25T12:00:34-06:00 List-Id: > > I think "CLAW" on Debian might be a hard sell! :-) > > Depends. :-) Windows emulation via Wine is making progress. As I recall, we did successfully run Claw programs that way several years ago. > IIRC, CLAW's toolkit dependent stuff is mostly collected into > a single package; thus it might well be possible to rewrite CLAW is a Class Library - you use the parts you need. There are parts that are tightly bound with the message loop, there are parts with rather direct mappings to specific Windows capabilities, and there are parts bound very loosely. For instance, there's a version of Claw sockets that doesn't use Claw at all.