Re: RFD: comp.windows.curses (Ada)

[dg@poboxes.com]

My understanding is that ncurses is a C library.

My understanding is that what Russ Allbery is referring to is
an "Ada binding", and that this is a set of headers and interface
routines to allow the use of ncurses FROM an Ada application, but that
ncurses is still a C library.

1) Could someone verify, clarify, or correct what an Ada binding is,
by a posting to "news.groups" or "comp.lang.c"?  I have not personally
used the Ada binding, just read about it.

2) If ncurses is not just a C library, what would Russ think about
"comp.programming.libraries.curses"?

Daniel Goldman

In article <3vi3lo03y.fsf@windlord.Stanford.EDU>,
  Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu> wrote:
>
> Hans Steffani <hfst@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de> writes:
> > Kenneth P. Turvey <kturvey@pug1.SprocketShop.com> writes:
>
> >> How about something that indicates that curses is a library, like
> >> comp.windows.libcurses or something like that?
>
> > As this library used together with C most times (hopefully correct
> > assumption) then maybe comp.lang.c.curses or comp.lang.c.libs.curses may
> > be a good idea.
>
> Given that the ncurses distribution includes an Ada library, I don't think
> this is a good idea.
>
> --
> Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)         <URL:http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

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