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From: "I. Levashew" <octagram@bluebottle.com>
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Subject: Re: New Ada portable GUI Library?
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Martin Krischik пишет:
> I have another suggestion: A GUI Library based on OpenStep [1].
> 
> Existing GUI Libraries tend to be rather complex with hundreds of
> classes - any binding is a huge work - especially since most GUI
> Libraries are OO - and binding to an OO Lib in another language is
> difficult. And a job without end as all libraries are constantly extended.

As of Leopard Apple started providing BridgeSupport XML files. It's not 
an endless job now. It's a virtually one-time job.

> here the Idea: If we create an Objective-Ada pre-processor we are done.
> And the Mac-Ada users would love it ;-).

Why do we need a preprocessor? It'll hurt ability of manipulating source 
code with 3rd party utilities. I'm Mac-Ada user, and I'm definitelly not 
going to love it. It is opposed to Ada spirit.

I think Objective-C on Mac OS X should be dealt with the same way as COM 
on Windows; on Mac OS X we'll just use BridgeSupport XML instead of IDL.