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 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,ac39a12d5faf5b14 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-04-17 22:12:10 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!feed2.news.rcn.net!rcn!newsfeed1.earthlink.net!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!newsread1.prod.itd.earthlink.net.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Eric G. Miller" Subject: Re: Development process in the Ada community Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Message-ID: References: <4519e058.0204150645.62003096@posting.google.com> <4519e058.0204170855.16950071@posting.google.com> User-Agent: Pan/0.11.2 (Unix) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Comment-To: "Stephen Leake" Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 05:12:07 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 216.119.27.53 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread1.prod.itd.earthlink.net 1019106727 216.119.27.53 (Wed, 17 Apr 2002 22:12:07 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 22:12:07 PDT Organization: EarthLink Inc. -- http://www.EarthLink.net Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:22706 Date: 2002-04-18T05:12:07+00:00 List-Id: In , Stephen Leake wrote: > GtkAda also competes, but since it's strictly a GUI binding, not an OS > binding, and it is platform independent, it's in a different class. Curious. What OS bindings do most people need/want? Gtk2 is certainly a bit more than just a GUI binding via GLIB (library of utility functions and data types), ATK (Accessibility Toolkit, think ADA), Pango (bi-directional text and font handling), and GdkPixBuf (image handling). Since GTK2.0 depends on all those libraries, if GtkAda provides bindings to them you'd get all the functionality "for free". Granted, I doubt most of these things have been well tested on other than *nix like environments (and I understand, not all functionality has been ported to Windows environs yet -- like it's IO channels [files, sockets, other?]). All of it licensed under GNU Library General Public License, so using it for proprietary software is okay.