Re: ANN: MAX! home automation v2.0

["Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>]

On 2017-12-19 14:40, Brian Drummond wrote:
> On Sun, 17 Dec 2017 18:30:18 +0100, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
> 
>> On 2017-12-17 17:10, Brian Drummond wrote:
> 
>>> You might be looking for https://www.sparforte.com/
>>
>> Thanks, it looks good.
>>
>> But I don't see crucial details:
>>
>> 1. Windows support
>>
>> 2. Embedding. The script must be run from an Ada program and the program
>> must extend the script's built-in operations.
> 
> I don't know about these; if it's buildable and runnable under cygwin for
> example, would that work, or do you need full native Windows?

I contacted Ken Burtch, Windows is not supported.

The sources use low-level Unix I/O. It would be difficult to port to 
Windows without an OS abstraction level.

> As it's written in Ada (as far as possible) it can presumably be built
> into another Ada program, or adapted to build as a library.

It could be 100% Ada if were not GNAT-agnostic.

AdaCore did a great work abstracting OS away and providing Ada project 
tool. To be AdaCore independent you lose a lot. It is worth considering 
some of GNAT libraries, e.g. GNAT.Sockets, becoming the standard as well 
as GPR projects. Seeing autoconf/configure/cmake mess near to Ada makes 
me ill...

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Dmitry A. Kazakov
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