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,ae0c567a4b40a4ee X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news3.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!wns14feed!worldnet.att.net!attbi_s72.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: "Jeffrey R. Carter" Organization: jrcarter at acm dot org User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (Windows/20051201) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada bindings to Linux GUI toolkits ? References: <5Kzqg.19973$FQ1.16552@attbi_s71> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.201.97.176 X-Complaints-To: abuse@mchsi.com X-Trace: attbi_s72 1152157391 12.201.97.176 (Thu, 06 Jul 2006 03:43:11 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2006 03:43:11 GMT Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2006 03:43:11 GMT Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:5526 Date: 2006-07-06T03:43:11+00:00 List-Id: 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