From: "Jeffrey R. Carter" <spam.not.jrcarter@acm.not.spam.org>
Subject: Re: Ada bindings to Linux GUI toolkits ?
Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2006 03:43:11 GMT
Date: 2006-07-06T03:43:11+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jF%qg.65812$1i1.5624@attbi_s72> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <p9mzbpnfp0.fsf@hod.lan.m-e-leypold.de>
M E Leypold wrote:
>
> "Live with" without the option of conservative maintenance sounds
> pretty much like a dead end. One reason to decide for the main stream
> (Gtk) is the continued developement, in backend and interface. Writing
> now a software based on something that will become more and more
> unbuildable within the next years seems to be a waste of time.
A fairly common practice on real projects is to choose a toolset and
freeze it for the life of the project. Such projects "live with"
whatever drawbacks their chosen toolset may have. So, living with an
older toolset is not that uncommon a situation.
--
Jeff Carter
"C++ is like jamming a helicopter inside a Miata
and expecting some sort of improvement."
Drew Olbrich
51
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-07-06 3:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-07-01 0:11 Ada bindings to Linux GUI toolkits ? Simon Clubley
2006-07-01 0:35 ` Marius Amado-Alves
2006-07-01 9:10 ` Simon Wright
2006-07-01 9:11 ` M E Leypold
2006-07-01 10:45 ` Gautier
2006-07-03 11:36 ` Simon Clubley
2006-07-03 19:51 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2006-07-04 0:04 ` M E Leypold
2006-07-04 10:19 ` Ludovic Brenta
2006-07-04 20:39 ` Simon Wright
2006-07-05 19:37 ` Ludovic Brenta
2006-07-05 20:15 ` Michael Bode
2006-07-06 8:06 ` M E Leypold
2006-07-04 22:40 ` M E Leypold
2006-07-04 19:56 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2006-07-04 22:55 ` M E Leypold
2006-07-06 3:43 ` Jeffrey R. Carter [this message]
2006-07-06 8:11 ` M E Leypold
2006-07-01 15:25 ` Lucretia
replies disabled
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox