Re: RE: rename missing in Text_IO

[tmoran@acm.org]

>I'd like to take this opportunity to volunteer my services as a Win32
>"thick binding coordinator", ...
>... As mentioned before, I already have bindings developed for ...
  www.adapower.com also lists:
Claw       2.7 MB (free for non-commerical use)
           5.8 MB + examples, docs, and GUI Builder, $>0
Windex     2.4 MB
GWindows   1.3 MB
Jewl        .9 MB
  Perhaps "thick binding coordination" would fit nicely in the
Ada Bindings Working Group?

I suspect it is currently difficult to mix different parts of these
bindings.  Maybe part of "coordination" should be development of
ways to switch between, or mix and match, instead of being locked in
to one particular binding.

BTW, one of the major, but rarely mentioned, advantages of a thick
binding is that someone else has tracked down the obscurities,
ambiguities, MS doc errors, etc to find out what the various API
calls actually do, and how they need to hang together.  The thinner
the binding, the more of that you get to do yourself.  ;)