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From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
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Subject: Re: What exactly is the licensing situation with GNAT?
Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2014 16:53:45 -0600
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"Hubert" <herrdoktor@fumanchu.com> wrote in message 
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> The Gnoga project might be something to get people started though. Part of 
> what put me off two years ago was that Gtk wasn't working very well for 
> me. The layout editor was messing up half my screen and looked not very 
> user friendly, so my conclusion was without a decent User Interface 
> library it makes little sense for me to invest more time.

Unfortunately, if it is like most of David's other software, it won't work 
on other Ada compilers. (That is a common problem, not really picking on 
David here, a lot of supposedly Ada software is really GNAT software.) That 
locks you into GNAT, and as you note, the costs for getting regular support 
for GNAT are not really affordable.

One of the reasons we built Claw was to provide a Windows interface that 
would work on any Ada 95 compiler for Windows, not just GNAT. That requires 
displine and testing that most hobbyests wouldn't bother with.

                                         Randy.