Re: New Ada portable GUI Library?

[Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>]

Jerrid Kimball writes:
> With all this interest in developing a portable GUI toolkit for Ada,
> I've posed myself this question: Why don't those who have a vested
> (commercial) interest in Ada develop the toolkit.  After all, it is
> expected the relatively small group of Ada FOSS developers to untake
> such a monumental project.--Not that it isn't possible, but it also
> seems that with such interest in such a project, AdaCore would more
> than benefit from offering support for such a project as well as
> expanding the reach of Ada which, in turn, would benefit AdaCore even
> more so.

What you propose has already happened: http://libre.adacore.com/GtkAda
(even the support part).

The no-cost version is under pure GPL.  The commercially supported
version is under GMGPL.  This is a problem for people who would like
to distribute proprietary software linked with GtkAda but are
unwilling or unable to pay AdaCore for the GMGPL version that would
allow them to do that.  The whole thread was about creating an
alternative for these people.

Personally, I'm happy with GtkAda.

-- 
Ludovic Brenta.