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=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,470860aa3e635a7 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: GNAT for MS Visual Studio References: <13duou81kg3sd1c@corp.supernews.com> <13f3e0vbb05s47c@corp.supernews.com> <13f6eg0te46m2a3@corp.supernews.com> <6Y6dnRPSgqC592HbnZ2dnUVZ_oqhnZ2d@comcast.com> <9xodfnw2qj.fsf@hod.lan.m-e-leypold.de> From: Markus E L Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2007 18:50:34 +0200 Message-ID: User-Agent: Some cool user agent (SCUG) Cancel-Lock: sha1:G/7YKKLmHMgMXeNfoIRzJwC+waY= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii NNTP-Posting-Host: 88.74.42.230 X-Trace: news.arcor-ip.de 1191084321 88.74.42.230 (29 Sep 2007 18:45:21 +0200) X-Complaints-To: abuse@arcor-ip.de Path: g2news2.google.com!news2.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!newsfeed.velia.net!newsfeeder.dynfx.net!news.unit0.net!newsfeed.arcor-ip.de!news.arcor-ip.de!not-for-mail Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:2223 Date: 2007-09-29T18:50:34+02:00 List-Id: Michael Bode wrote: > Markus E L > writes: > >> Until then, and that is the important point, I won't trust most of my >> code to some GUI builder, because I know that Make and Emacs will be >> there in 10 years, but the GUI builder might not. And I hate what >> happens to my application when tool vendors go out of the market. > > But you trust your code to some GUI library. And the library vendor > (or the main or single contributor to the libray OSS project) might go > out of business. Or he might change the license in some way you don't > like. Absolutely right. A library, at least in theory, is forkable. If not by the community, that it can be still maintained inhouse for a number of years. This is exactly what I intend to do with GtkAda 2.4. for the very project where I got bitten by the well known time travelling license. Personally I think it's more realistic to fork/maintain a library than a tool, though you certainly are right with the point you're making. Regards -- Markus