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=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Received: by 10.52.6.161 with SMTP id c1mr968777vda.5.1421934101677; Thu, 22 Jan 2015 05:41:41 -0800 (PST) X-Received: by 10.182.230.133 with SMTP id sy5mr8369obc.1.1421934101528; Thu, 22 Jan 2015 05:41:41 -0800 (PST) Path: border1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!v8no2787773qal.1!news-out.google.com!db6ni4746igc.0!nntp.google.com!hl2no1088475igb.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2015 05:41:41 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <12657b1f-d48b-4061-b4b8-b6d920fabab4@googlegroups.com> Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=73.46.72.234; posting-account=yiWntAoAAAC1KqC_shmxJYv07B9l6LNU NNTP-Posting-Host: 73.46.72.234 References: <12657b1f-d48b-4061-b4b8-b6d920fabab4@googlegroups.com> User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: Subject: Re: David, have you thought about using an existing editor? From: David Botton Injection-Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2015 13:41:41 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Xref: number.nntp.giganews.com comp.lang.ada:192000 Date: 2015-01-22T05:41:41-08:00 List-Id: > In case you don't like GPS If you've followed things, for the most part there isn't a dislike of GPS, = but rather there are some discussions about things that could be different,= etc. since for the Gnoga project (http://gnoga.com) there is a need for an= IDE as part of the GUI builder. GPS heavily uses Python and ASIS. I have little interest in Python programm= ing (I certainly would be more popular and it would be initially much more = profitable writing Gnoga in Python, but I'd like to give Ada a fighting cha= nce for a future beyond a few niche safety critical projects since I enjoy = coding in it). Asis is not available for non-license virusing compilers on = Windows at the moment, so not an option to use. (Advocacy is about easy of = entry cutting out Windows is foolish). >deserves some recognition and support. Try first and investigate use, licensing and _proprietary_ layers first, th= en get back to us ;) He is also not been very responsive to e-mails, could be language barriers.= Certainly he has some nice bindings that if they didn't have proprietary s= ections and the others parts were under GMGPL, etc. would be interesting to= build on. > There was also another guy from the USAF (that USAF) Martin's AdaGIDE is a simple old style code editor for Win32, not maintaine= d and very specific to Windows. It is still useful for some if they work on= ly on Windows. David Botton