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: 11232c,39dbc4c99e28558a X-Google-Attributes: gid11232c,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,41100a78496a4c71 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-04-02 15:11:46 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!cyclone.bc.net!news.mailgate.org!mygate.mailgate.org!198.207.153.205!not-for-mail From: "Kent Paul Dolan" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,misc.misc Subject: Re: AdaGames Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2002 23:11:44 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Mailgate.ORG Server - http://www.Mailgate.ORG Message-ID: References: <98104da8.0203280310.143a1c18@posting.google.com> <6b3bf5a20d777974aaa9f58b6f6792be.48257@mygate.mailgate.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: 198.207.153.205 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: news.mailgate.org 1017784834 19010 198.207.153.205 (Wed Apr 3 01:11:44 2002) X-Complaints-To: abuse@mailgate.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2002 23:11:44 +0000 (UTC) Injector-Info: news.mailgate.org; posting-host=198.207.153.205; posting-account=48257; posting-date=1017784834 User-Agent: Mailgate Web Server X-URL: http://mygate.mailgate.org/mynews/comp/comp.lang.ada/b82df4c8f8f49fe11a7fa3577a59dc89.48257%40mygate.mailgate.org Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:22019 misc.misc:6035 Date: 2002-04-02T23:11:44+00:00 List-Id: "Preben Randhol" wrote: > > No, you need to go sideways to that; xlib is X specific, and you are > > wasting your time completely if you don't write something that ports > > automatically to any windowing system. > We are talking about a port to linux from a Windows spesific toolkit. Exactly, and having learned once how painful it is to have something to port that is not written to a device/OS/programming language independent standard, why not learn from the experience rather than repeat the previous implementation's error? xanthian. -- Posted via Mailgate.ORG Server - http://www.Mailgate.ORG