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,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,752a3fab42ce9726 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news2.google.com!news.germany.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: "Alex R. Mosteo" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Answer of Request to AdaCore on licensing Status of GtkAda 2.4.0 Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2006 13:01:13 +0200 Message-ID: <4irkifF4tq2bU1@individual.net> References: <1153845422.892600.122790@i3g2000cwc.googlegroups.com> <1153907895.074574.150970@m73g2000cwd.googlegroups.com> <1153912097.112009.46160@s13g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <4ipcgkF4rd7nU1@individual.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Trace: individual.net ZTR5FBzbaKC4OtvbwdahMAYbotg04YLjzXMh4YiqDCiLUBDvc= User-Agent: KNode/0.10.2 Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:5963 Date: 2006-07-27T13:01:13+02:00 List-Id: Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote: > On Wed, 26 Jul 2006 16:31:24 +0200, Alex R. Mosteo wrote: > >> Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote: >> >>> On 26 Jul 2006 14:54:00 +0200, michael bode wrote: >>> >>>> The other question would be: would it make more sense to fork an >>>> independent GMGPL GtkAda or join the GNAVI/GWindows project and work >>>> on the GTK+ port of GWindows? >>> >>> GtkAda could be reworked from scratch. It must be boring and a lot of >>> work, but not much complex. GtkAda is quite thin bindings. One could >>> even make stuff like Gtk_Widget_Record limited controlled and make GTK+ >>> interfaces Ada interfaces... >> >> Or maybe the people working on the C binding generator of SWIG could use >> some help, and start from there. > > Well, GTK+ is a quite weird thing. It tries to do OO in plain C. It is > like flying to the Moon on a bike. (:-)) A generator might break its teeth > on it. GtkAda has difficulties with all this. For example, GTK+ type > extension is not an extension of the corresponding Ada type. GTK+ > interface isn't an Ada interface. GTK+ virtual function isn't a primitive > operation etc. Yep, no joys in all these things. >> I think that's the really critical Ada >> project waiting to happen. > > SWIG or GTK+ bindings? SWIG