Re: Binding or not binding

["Björn Persson" <spam-away@nowhere.nil>]

Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:

> On Wed, 31 Jan 2007 14:25:50 +0100, Pascal Obry wrote:
> 
>> Another example, do you think it would have been wise to recode the Gtk+
>> library in Ada... certainly not :)
> 
> I wouldn't be so sure. In a long term perspective it certainly makes
> sense. Fighting GTK+ costs too much time. GUI libraries have too much
> influence on software design to leave them outside Ada. If Ada only had a
> quasi-standard GUI library, portable, task-safe, designed for and in
> Ada...

I wonder if it would make sense to make a hybrid, or maybe I should call it
an ultra-thick binding. That is, to design an API that makes sense for Ada,
and write the specifications without regard to any other library, but then
internally use a portable library like GTK+, QT or WXwidgets – or low-level
parts of it – to put things on the screen and take care of the
cross-platform issues.

But I know very little about GUI libraries so I should probably shut up.

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