Re: Binding or not binding

[tmoran@acm.org]

> > 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.

  In addition to the "how easy is it to rewrite in Ada or to write a
thin binding in Ada" questions mentioned:
  Is the underlying library subject to important iplementation change
(efficiency, for instance), so that you would have to modify an all-Ada
version to keep up?
  Is there a question of thick/thin binding?  Do you want the Ada binding
to be type-safe, use exceptions, avoid pointers, etc, or just to be
a thin set of pragma imports?
  How good is the library you are looking at?  Do the routines actually
act as their documentation says?  If not, do you want your binding to
expose those problems to its users, or to internally work around, and
thus hide, them?
  Just a few considerations.