Re: Migrating to Ada : a mini success story

[Simon Clubley <clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP>]

On 2010-02-15, Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org> wrote:
> Simon Clubley wrote on comp.lang.ada:
>> I would love to find an open source equivalent of the forms and ISAM
>> toolkits which could be called from Ada.
>
> For the forms toolkit, I'd start with TextTools[1]. It may not be
> complete enough but certainly provides a starting point.
>

Thanks for the pointer; I didn't know this toolkit existed.

You are correct that it's not functional enough to replace the Synergex
forms toolkit, but I am going to look at it anyway sometime over the next
few weeks to see what it is capable of.

> For ISAM, it depends on whether you need support for a specific binary
> file format or if you are content with equivalent functionality.
>
> If binary compatibility doesn't matter, I'd suggest writing an Ada
> binding to Berkeley DB[2] or using the existing GNADE[3] binding to
> SQLite[4]. The former is faster because it uses no SQL parser. The
> latter is more structured, thanks to SQL. In both cases, the file
> format will stand the test of time; that's the main benefit of free
> software.
>

Binary compatibility does not matter.

The Berkeley DB library seems to have had a serious reworking since
I last looked at it and dismissed it, so I will have a look at that
as well.

Thanks for the pointers,

Simon.

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