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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,MAILING_LIST_MULTI autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,c58d0944b1fbcea X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-09-08 19:37:00 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!212.43.194.69!fr.clara.net!heighliner.fr.clara.net!teaser.fr!enst!enst.fr!not-for-mail From: "David Botton" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] XML/Ada 0.6 released Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2001 22:36:25 -0400 Organization: ENST, France Sender: comp.lang.ada-admin@ada.eu.org Message-ID: References: <87zo86drnb.fsf@deneb.enyo.de> Reply-To: comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: marvin.enst.fr Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: avanie.enst.fr 1000003019 82972 137.194.161.2 (9 Sep 2001 02:36:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@enst.fr NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 9 Sep 2001 02:36:59 +0000 (UTC) To: Return-Path: X-pair-Authenticated: 65.185.64.49 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4807.1700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4807.1700 Errors-To: comp.lang.ada-admin@ada.eu.org X-BeenThere: comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.4 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: comp.lang.ada mail<->news gateway List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Errors-To: comp.lang.ada-admin@ada.eu.org X-BeenThere: comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:12935 Date: 2001-09-08T22:36:25-04:00 > I think Emmanuel missed a change which is might be important for some > people: XML/Ada is now released under the GPL with GNAT modifications. YES YES YES YES Important to some!! To A L L of Ada advocacy!! Ada wins!! The GPL is a noble cause, but GPL on Ada (_library_) code doesn't advocate GPL ___OR___ Ada. A huge THANK YOU to the entire XML Ada team and to all of Ada Core Technologies Inc. who certainly did not _have to_ do this! Can you tell that I am happy with this :-) I only wish I could afford to write things like an SVG engine using XMLAda and GtkAda. Talk about killer App for Ada, see http://www.adobe.com/svg/overview/svg.html SVG in a nutshell is a graphic meta file format using XML. It may very well (combined with JavaScript) become a major open replacement technology to Macromedia Flash and much more. (BTW Corel Draw, Adobe Illustrator and others already output SVG) I can of course take advantage with Ada already on Win32 of Adobe's SVG engine using GNATCOM, but it would be very nice to have a cross platform version. (I better stop here before I start to sound like Robert Leif :-) David Botton