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-Thread: 103376,a875d9649dde34e3 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!fr.ip.ndsoftware.net!teaser.fr!usenet-fr.net!enst.fr!melchior!cuivre.fr.eu.org!melchior.frmug.org!not-for-mail From: Stephen Leake Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: GWindows and a future home for it Date: 29 Sep 2004 20:03:07 -0400 Organization: Cuivre, Argent, Or Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lovelace.ada-france.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: melchior.cuivre.fr.eu.org 1096502600 94127 212.85.156.195 (30 Sep 2004 00:03:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@melchior.cuivre.fr.eu.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 00:03:20 +0000 (UTC) To: comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org Return-Path: In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p10 (Debian) at ada-france.org X-BeenThere: comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: "Gateway to the comp.lang.ada Usenet newsgroup" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:4418 Date: 2004-09-29T20:03:07-04:00 Fionn mac Cuimhaill writes: > Has anyone done any more thinking about a home for GWindows?=20 I was hoping we would have a more general discussion of whether Gwindows is what we want to take forward. I've been collecting names in this thread. Here's what I think is the current situation: Stephen Leake Willing to proceed with GWindows or Claw, preference for GWindows, because it is closer to Windex Will merge Windex into either. Fionn mac Cuimhaill would like to proceed with GWindows not clear if Claw would be an acceptable option Randy Brukardt would like to proceed with Claw; willing to make the full Claw open source Switching to GWindows not an option Martin Dowie willing to help not clear whether he prefers GWindows or Claw stephane richard willing to help either GWindows or Claw Bj=F6rn Persson has string encodings library that could be useful Stephen McNeill willing to work on gwindows documentation not clear on whether Claw is acceptable I apologize if I've got your opinion wrong, or if I've left someone out. Could we get a vote from the above people, and any others that will actually work on this project, on how to proceed? I think it's clear we should set up a SourceForge project with either Claw or GWindows. As others have pointed out, it's not hard to set up a SourceForge project. I have extensive experience in CVS, and have run a project on Savannah; I volunteer to be the first admin for the SourceForge project (we should have at least two at all times). So the vote is for: 1) Start a GWindows SourceForge project. Let Claw do its own thing. 2) Start a Claw SourceForge project. Let GWindows wither away. 3) Do something else. Please be specific! > On another front - the proposed bug list. I have an item for it. > This might be described as a restriction rather than a bug; this is in > GWindows.Databases. I was using one of the Field_Value functions to > get a SQL Server datetime value into a variable of type Time (as > defined in Ada.Calendar). The problem is that the range of dates that > can be expressed with a variable of type Time is too narrow, and one > of the GNATCOM routines which converts the date extracted from SQL > Server into a Time choked on a date with a year before 1901. >=20 > GNATCOM and GWindows need a calendar package similar to Ada.Calendar > which is based on a native Windows time representation. I'll answer this in a separate thread, so we don't confuse things. --=20 -- Stephe