From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,3cd3b8571c28b75f X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-08-25 09:38:56 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!cyclone.bc.net!news-in.mts.net!nf1.bellglobal.com!nf2.bellglobal.com!news20.bellglobal.com.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: A Customer's Request For Open Source Software References: <3F44BC65.4020203@noplace.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2003 12:32:06 -0400 NNTP-Posting-Host: 198.96.223.163 X-Complaints-To: abuse@sympatico.ca X-Trace: news20.bellglobal.com 1061829110 198.96.223.163 (Mon, 25 Aug 2003 12:31:50 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2003 12:31:50 EDT Organization: Bell Sympatico Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:41847 Date: 2003-08-25T12:32:06-04:00 List-Id: 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.. ;-) -- Warren W. Gay VE3WWG http://home.cogeco.ca/~ve3wwg