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: 103376,4b27f494a96e0530 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news2.google.com!proxad.net!freenix!enst.fr!melchior!cuivre.fr.eu.org!melchior.frmug.org!not-for-mail From: Stephen Leake Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: A community Windows binding Date: 10 Oct 2004 14:05:57 -0400 Organization: Cuivre, Argent, Or Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lovelace.ada-france.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: melchior.cuivre.fr.eu.org 1097431579 27991 212.85.156.195 (10 Oct 2004 18:06:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@melchior.cuivre.fr.eu.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2004 18:06:19 +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:5005 Date: 2004-10-10T14:05:57-04:00 Given the response so far, it is clear there is much more support for using GWindows as the base of a "community Windows binding" than CLAW. Also, it seems clear that SourceForge is the platform to use. Using Gnu Arch is appealing, but it requires that each developer open their machines to outside access. I'd rather let SourceForge worry about the security implications of that. The other hosts suggested don't seem as well supported as SourceForge. Before I actually create a SourceForge project, I'd like to get at least one other developer to commit to being a sysadmin on the project. I don't think being sysadmin will take much time; it mostly consists of setting up accounts for developers. When we get to doing releases, there will be more work, but we can deal with that then. Another minor issue is the name of the project. We want to host GWindows code (no need to change the name of that package). Also the Gnatcom code? I'm not clear if this is available anywhere other than AdaPower, or if it needs a CVS project. And possibly a version of Ada.Collections, until they become widely available from vendors. We should start using that for any collection needs in GWindows. Or we could just redistribute a .tar.gz of Matthew Heaney's current stuff. And possibly other GUI/Windows related packages in the future; maybe a separate database binding, or a GUI builder, etc. So perhaps GWindows is not the best name for the SourceForge project. Let's have a short discussion on this, then I'll set up the project next weekend, and we can start using that mailing list for any other issues. For my part, I actually think we should use GWindows; it's currently a recognized name, and is general enough to mean "Anything Open Source in Ada related to Windows". -- -- Stephe