Re: A Customer's Request For Open Source Software

["Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" <ve3wwg@cogeco.ca>]

Preben Randhol wrote:

> Warren W. Gay VE3WWG wrote:
> 
>>I would have to agree. It would seem that there is plenty of interest
>>in making server and kernel enhancements, but much less support in
>>getting actual applications done.
> 
> Oh yes. There are currently 362 different window manager projects listed
> at freshmeat. I would say we could do with 10 max.
> 
>>I am very interested in doing applications myself. The problem is that
>>I want to do them strictly in Ada95, for all the reasons we know and
>>love. So right now, my time is spent building up a series of important
>>language bindings, one of which is APQ.
> 
> Same here. Well at the moment I have had to halt any software
> development as I'm very busy. But I'm also doing this. What I'm
> currently designing and making is a library to contain useful Gtkada
> composites, like Dialogs: About, Exceptions, Warning, Info, etc..., new
> widgets and a simple Help system that can be integrated in the
> applications for simple on the spot help and information. And I'm also
> making a Program Template for GtkAda. The purpose of the latter is to be
> able to make new GtkAda programs faster as you do not need to do all the
> common functions/callbacks etc only that which is specific to your program.
> Combined with the other library I described a lot of the work done to
> make a nice GUI should be reduced and one would be able to reuse the
> code. At least this is my hope :-)

Very good. Ada needs development resources. If enough people like
yourself contribute the necessary components, we can start to
play on a level playing field (application wise). For the moment,
it is still an up hill battle, but I think we're slowly winning.. ;-)

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Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
http://home.cogeco.ca/~ve3wwg