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Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2014 22:26:08 +0100
From: Damien Carbonne <damien.carbonne@free.fr>
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Hello,

Thanks Dmitry for citing this binding.
I haven't written any Ada code for a long time (but I still follow CLA), 
and indeed, this Cairo binding is quite out dated. Most of it is 
independent of Gtk and can be used without Gtk (for png, svg, pdf, ...).
This binding would need an update from an API point of view.
I had done some work in that direction, but never uploaded it.
The Gtk part should be adapted to Gtk3, but that should not be too 
difficult.
If someone was interested by such an update, I could give it a try.
In my opinion, this binding had no chance against AdaCore. Would things 
have changed ?

Regards,
Damien Carbonne

Le 10/12/2014 21:23, Dmitry A. Kazakov a écrit :
> On Wed, 10 Dec 2014 10:32:51 -0800 (PST), David Botton wrote:
>
>> I do not plan on using the Cairo bindings from AdaCore nor any of the
>> AdaCore available bindings since finding this in the GNU/Debian
>> distribution of gcc/ada.
>>
>> /usr/share/doc/libgtkada2.24.4
>
> David, if you are OK with using outdated Cairo (GTK 2.x) then here are
> bindings developed by Damien Carbonne:
>
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/cairoada/
>
> They were better designed than AdaCore's, higher-level, packing ugly
> objects in controlled handle types.
>