Re: [announcement] SYSAPI and SYSSVC for Windows

["Ekkehard Morgenstern" <ekkehard.morgenstern@onlinehome.de>]

<tmoran@acm.org> wrote:
> >I've looked at a couple of other Ada Windows bindings, and didn't find them
> >satisfying, either because they're out of date, or because they're too
> >expensive.
>   Interesting.  I only know of one which, in its full-up version, costs
> anything at all.  What did you find too expensive?  As to up-to-date,
> it's always a hazard when you depend entirely on one person's available
> time and his pleasure as the sole motivation for continuing support.

So, then tell me of all the free Ada bindings for Windows that support the
latest APIs of Windows XP, I'd be curious to know! Would save me a lot of
work! :)
 
> >I also explained this point in another post of this thread. :)
>   My newsreader (and Google groups) seems to have missed this.   Could
> you re-explain please?

I wrote it in the 4th post of this thread (at the time of this writing):

"I tried using the Win32Ada binding, but it covers only Windows NT 4.0 and
Windows 95, which are both very outdated (from 1995). So I got the idea to
write my own. GNAT's tools for Windows DLL binding also seem to be outdated,
and so that's another reason for providing my own abstraction. And while it
would be possible perhaps to create import libraries to use directly from
Ada, I think it's better to encapsulate the system dependencies away."

You might also want to read the remainder of that post.

As for other bindings listed on AdaPower, AdaHome etc., I tried to download
GWindows but it wouldn't compile and it's outdated anyway. IDEs like 
ObjectAda and AdaGide apparently haven't been maintained properly for years,
as well.

My SYSSVC/SYSAPI library is very small and covers only specific purposes,
but it satisfies my needs for now, and I will extend it of course to provide
up-to-date bindings. I do not wish to compete with other libraries, I just
want to provide an alternate way of doing things. :)

Taken that I took only two days to write it, I think I will make more 
progress with it soon. :)