Re: RAPID

[Shark8 <onewingedshark@gmail.com>]

On Monday, April 12, 2021 at 12:04:53 PM UTC-6, Thomas wrote:
> In article <31164e74-92d2-4424>,
> Shark8 wrote: 
> 
> > On Monday, April 12, 2021 at 10:56:55 AM UTC-6, Thomas wrote: 
> > > courtesy Oliver Kellogg, 
> > > i'm officially the new RAPID maintainer :-) 
> > > i would like to know if there still exists some RAPID users :-) 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > i also would like to know if there are some users of other platforms 
> > > than Unix or Windows who would like to use RAPID, even if it doesn't 
> > > work until now. 
> > > 
> > > i see that GtkAda supports at least Solaris/sparc platform, in addition 
> > > to Unix and Windows, 
> > > but if no one is interested i won't waste time on a specific portability. 
> > > tell me :-) 
> > 
> > I'm on Windows and Solaris and Linux here, we might get Macintosh from 
> > long-term visitors.
> ok :-) 
> 
> what's your relation with RAPID ? 
> (are you a user ? are you interested ? ...)
Not a user, currently.
But interested, and having a nice cross-platform common-UI would make things a lot nicer for some prospective software-upgrades at work.
One such possible nicety would be a universal administration tool, another would be a data-management/-analysis tool for visiting scientists, another possibility would be decoupling several control-programs (codebases in everything from C to VB to C#) used to operate the instrumentation here from their host-systems and increase portability.