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,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,4b27f494a96e0530 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!news.zanker.org!feeder.enertel.nl!nntpfeed-01.ops.asmr-01.energis-idc.net!newshub3.home.nl!newshub1.home.nl!home.nl!not-for-mail From: Andre Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: A community Windows binding Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2004 20:17:04 +0200 Organization: @Home Benelux Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: cp538812-a.venra1.lb.home.nl Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news6.zwoll1.ov.home.nl 1097432224 7757 84.30.194.114 (10 Oct 2004 18:17:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@corp.home.nl NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2004 18:17:04 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8 (Windows/20040913) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:5006 Date: 2004-10-10T20:17:04+02:00 List-Id: Stephen Leake wrote: > Given the response so far, it is clear there is much more support for > using GWindows as the base of a "community Windows binding" than CLAW. > > Also, it seems clear that SourceForge is the platform to use. Using > Gnu Arch is appealing, but it requires that each developer open their > machines to outside access. I'd rather let SourceForge worry about the > security implications of that. The other hosts suggested don't seem as > well supported as SourceForge. > > Before I actually create a SourceForge project, I'd like to get at > least one other developer to commit to being a sysadmin on the > project. I don't think being sysadmin will take much time; it mostly > consists of setting up accounts for developers. When we get to doing > releases, there will be more work, but we can deal with that then. > > Another minor issue is the name of the project. > > We want to host GWindows code (no need to change the name of that > package). > > Also the Gnatcom code? I'm not clear if this is available anywhere > other than AdaPower, or if it needs a CVS project. > > And possibly a version of Ada.Collections, until they become widely > available from vendors. We should start using that for any collection > needs in GWindows. Or we could just redistribute a .tar.gz of Matthew > Heaney's current stuff. > > And possibly other GUI/Windows related packages in the future; maybe a > separate database binding, or a GUI builder, etc. > > So perhaps GWindows is not the best name for the SourceForge project. > > Let's have a short discussion on this, then I'll set up the project > next weekend, and we can start using that mailing list for any other > issues. > > For my part, I actually think we should use GWindows; it's currently a > recognized name, and is general enough to mean "Anything Open Source > in Ada related to Windows". > I already checked on SourceForge, but GWindows is already in use. Maybe AdaOnWindows is a project name covering its contents?