Re: GNADE still alive?

[Alan Jump <alan.jump@gmail.com>]

On Tuesday, April 24, 2012 7:00:46 AM UTC-7, Thomas Løcke wrote:
> On 04/24/2012 02:36 PM, Stephen Leake wrote:
> > I think the pro versions of GNATcoll include SQLite, but not the current
> > public version. I don't like the way AdaCore writes code (although I do
> > like their compiler :), so I would find it hard to maintain/improve
> > GNATcoll. But if you can afford an AdaCore support contract, that is
> > definitely the way to go.
> 
> 
> 
> There's SQLite support in the current dev version of GNATColl:
> 
> svn co http://svn.eu.adacore.com/anonsvn/Dev/trunk/gps/gnatlib/
> 
> Whether or not Alan is willing to risk using the latest SVN checkout
> is another matter entirely. Personally I've never had any issues with
> GNATColl dev.
> 
> re. your rant: I care about a project being actively developed because
> I don't trust my own abilities. I get a certain feeling of safety and
> comfort from knowing that there are people constantly working on fixing,
> maintaining and improving on software X.
> 
> If I _feel_ software has been abandoned, I'm much less inclined to start
> using it, unless I'm certain I can actually manage bug fixes and mainte-
> nance myself, in which case I would much rather try to bring the project
> back to life and hopefully entice other developers to join, as opposed
> to just using and maintaining it by myself in my own walled garden.
> 
> Did that even make sense?  :)

Made sense to me. :-)

I realize now that I made a glaring omission or three when I mentioned the project. First, the project itself is FOSS. That makes my operating and development budget precisely zero dollars, which precludes the "pro" versions of GNATcoll and the like, which is why I first searched Sourceforge. I'm further limited, budget-wise, in that my development machine is also my personal WinXX machine, and due to age and lack of processor power, I can't virtualize a Linux development environment. I have the GNAT GPL environment running, and running well, and unless I've been terribly misinformed, I can do cross-platform releases from it, so I'm even more reluctant to try and switch horses.

If GNADE is considered stable enough for routine use, I'll give it a go. The project I'm looking at is itself about four years old and doesn't appear to be actively worked on for at least two years, which is why I'm looking at dabbling with it. It should prove...educational. Doubly so, since I am nearly a complete Ada neophyte.

I think that's enough curve balls to throw for one morning.