Re: Announce : QtAda version 2.4

[Dirk Heinrichs <dirk.heinrichs@online.de>]

Georg Bauhaus wrote:

> Dirk Heinrichs schrieb:
>> Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
>> 
>>> Leonid Dulman asked me to announce this:
>>>
>>> QtAda is Ada-95(05)  interface to Qt4 graphics library
>> 
>> Although I appreciate this very much, I think it's not a good idea to
>> have two different efforts to provide the same interface. Wouldn't it be
>> better to join forces?
> 
> OTOH, competition, if possible, may provide for different
> approaches to writing Qt programs in Ada.

Usually I would agree to this argument. However, we are talking about 
projects to provide an Ada interface for a GUI toolkit written in another 
language, not about a project to actually _develop_ a GUI toolkit.

> One or the other
> approach might more portable, or be better in some situation.
> If I'm not mistaken, Qt4Ada (by Leonid Dulman) can be used with
> Ada 95 compilers; it does not depend on so many Ada 2005
> anonymous access types as QtAda does.

Any reason why all of this can't be achieved by a single project?

> (Can the latter be compiled
> at all with compilers other than a recent GNAT?)

That's IMHO another reason to have only one project. At least two persons 
have used much of their time to achive more or less the same goal, which is 
really great, but in the end both projects lack important functionality 
which is present in the other.

Bye...

	Dirk