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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,b6df8f8501cf7275 X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,UTF8 X-Received: by 10.180.81.40 with SMTP id w8mr9596518wix.0.1356778321467; Sat, 29 Dec 2012 02:52:01 -0800 (PST) X-FeedAbuse: http://nntpfeed.proxad.net/abuse.pl feeded by 88.191.116.97 Path: i11ni330144wiw.0!nntp.google.com!feeder1-2.proxad.net!proxad.net!feeder1-1.proxad.net!nntpfeed.proxad.net!dedibox.gegeweb.org!gegeweb.eu!gegeweb.org!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: =?utf-8?Q?Yannick_Duch=C3=AAne_=28Hibou57?= =?utf-8?Q?=29?= Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Easiest way to build Qt/Gtk interfaces for Ada programs Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2012 11:51:57 +0100 Organization: Ada @ Home Message-ID: References: <87072854-0f81-41fd-8cb0-ede78fccf6e7@googlegroups.com> <52aed30c-1fd3-407e-be52-2c366b9002d6@googlegroups.com> <49ad97eb-fac1-49f0-a4ea-2dd79fa803d0@googlegroups.com> <50dec41f$0$8991$ba4acef3@reader.news.orange.fr> NNTP-Posting-Host: aWaWeUaBdaj2Zzc04J1v5A.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Opera Mail/12.12 (Linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: Quoted-Printable Date: 2012-12-29T11:51:57+01:00 List-Id: Le Sat, 29 Dec 2012 11:23:30 +0100, Blady a =C3=A9crit= : > What about of standardized graphic Ada specification packages? If it's a simple one, it will please just a few people, and many people = = will wish there own things (just think that some Ada standard packages m= ay = already not please everyone, like Text_IO, some containers, =E2=80=A6 th= ings would = just be worst with graphics and UIs). If it's intended to try to please everyone, it would be bulky, and would= = easily consume 95% of the work on the Ada standard, which would be hardl= y = acceptable (and this would efficiently prevent standard Ada compilers to= = be created), for something which is not the first Ada concern. Better choose already existing standards when there are some, and make A= da = applications use it (either via bindings or implementations), at every = one's discretion. Defining what standard graphic/GUI/TUI services should= = be, is not an Ada concern anyway. -- = =E2=80=9CSyntactic sugar causes cancer of the semi-colons.=E2=80=9D [1] =E2=80=9CStructured Programming supports the law of the excluded muddle.= =E2=80=9D [1] [1]: Epigrams on Programming =E2=80=94 Alan J. =E2=80=94 P. Yale Univers= ity