From: Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>
Subject: Re: A few questions on Ada and Ada implementations
Date: Sun, 19 Dec 2010 14:48:46 +0100
Date: 2010-12-19T14:48:46+01:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y67lrhz5.fsf@ludovic-brenta.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: DKJIK2IK40531.306724537@reece.net.au
Kulin Remailer writes:
> I have been looking over Ada (the 95 variant) and it looks like a
> great language. Are there any free (as in no license restrictions, not
> GPL- anything) GUI libraries? What choices are there for handling
> output besides text? gcc-Ada looks good but I prefer to avoid gcc as
> much as I can and I also haven't found anything but GtkAda that seems
> to be GPLed.
There is a list of compilers with their licensing terms and some
libraries in the "Ada Programming" wikibook[1]. For the compiler, your
choices seem to be restricted to GCC (which you try to avoid) and
Janus/Ada; the others are too expensive for a hobbyist unless you can
persuade the vendors to give you a huge discount. As for the GUI
library, the choices follow from your choice of compilers. Most GUI
libraries that are available for GNU/Linux are either pure GPL or use a
commercial dual-licensing scheme. Other people have already listed a
few of these.
[1] http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Ada_Programming/Installing
Since I am also a hobbyist, I personally do not really understand your
stance about "unencumbered" libraries; I'm perfectly happy with the
GPL. This gives me a much wider range of choices.
--
Ludovic Brenta.
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Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-12-18 23:21 A few questions on Ada and Ada implementations Kulin Remailer
2010-12-19 1:00 ` Shark8
2010-12-19 2:55 ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2010-12-19 9:06 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-12-22 14:46 ` anon
2010-12-19 9:28 ` Pascal Obry
2010-12-19 13:48 ` Ludovic Brenta [this message]
2010-12-20 15:41 ` Kulin Remailer
2010-12-20 16:24 ` Simon Wright
2010-12-20 19:29 ` Kulin Remailer
2010-12-20 17:43 ` Ludovic Brenta
2010-12-21 13:42 ` Fritz Wuehler
2010-12-21 17:00 ` Georg Bauhaus
2010-12-19 14:52 ` Stephen Leake
2010-12-20 15:28 ` Kulin Remailer
2010-12-20 15:44 ` Pascal Obry
2010-12-22 9:30 ` Stephen Leake
2010-12-22 12:10 ` Kulin Remailer
2010-12-19 21:04 ` Georg Bauhaus
2010-12-20 16:05 ` Kulin Remailer
2010-12-20 19:47 ` Tero Koskinen
2010-12-20 22:28 ` Simon Wright
2010-12-21 10:35 ` Kulin Remailer
2010-12-21 0:14 ` Fritz Wuehler
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