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-Thread: 103376,ae0c567a4b40a4ee X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada bindings to Linux GUI toolkits ? References: <5Kzqg.19973$FQ1.16552@attbi_s71> From: M E Leypold Date: 06 Jul 2006 10:11:37 +0200 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii User-Agent: Some cool user agent (SCUG) NNTP-Posting-Host: 88.72.214.22 X-Trace: news.arcor-ip.de 1152173092 88.72.214.22 (6 Jul 2006 10:04:52 +0200) X-Complaints-To: abuse@arcor-ip.de Path: g2news2.google.com!news2.google.com!news.germany.com!newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!newsfeed.arcor-ip.de!news.arcor-ip.de!not-for-mail Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:5533 Date: 2006-07-06T10:11:37+02:00 List-Id: "Jeffrey R. Carter" writes: > M E Leypold wrote: > > "Live with" without the option of conservative maintenance sounds > > pretty much like a dead end. One reason to decide for the main stream > > (Gtk) is the continued developement, in backend and interface. Writing > > now a software based on something that will become more and more > > unbuildable within the next years seems to be a waste of time. > > A fairly common practice on real projects is to choose a toolset and > freeze it for the life of the project. Such projects "live with" > whatever drawbacks their chosen toolset may have. So, living with an > older toolset is not that uncommon a situation. Right. That's why I use Gnat 3.15p :-)). Freezing the tool set is OK for a single projekt. But I think it's useless to build a general code base (like, say, additional widget sets which one would like to reuse in future projects) on a foundation which will not be there (maintained) for some years. Regards -- Markus