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: 2002-04-18 19:50:07 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!xmission!news-out.spamkiller.net!propagator2-maxim!propagator-maxim!news-in.spamkiller.net!telocity-west!TELOCITY!hub1.nntpserver.com!newsfeed2.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: "Marin David Condic" Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2002 02:50:04 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 216.119.27.53 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread1.prod.itd.earthlink.net 1019184604 216.119.27.53 (Thu, 18 Apr 2002 19:50:04 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 19:50:04 PDT Organization: EarthLink Inc. -- http://www.EarthLink.net Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:22766 Date: 2002-04-19T02:50:04+00:00 List-Id: In , Marin David Condic wrote: > "Eric G. Miller" wrote in message > news:pan.2002.04.17.22.13.12.183692.16266@jps-nospam.net... >> >> 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?]). >> > So essentially you can port it to any system you like as long as that system > is Unix? :-) If a toolset were to be included in Ada in some manner that was > intended to interface to the OS, I would think it needs to be defined in > such a way that it could be readily used with at minimum Unix, Windows, and > Mac. If at all possible, you would want it to present an abstraction that > could be implemented on any OS that supported the concepts. Most of the development is done on Linux systems. And since gtk2.0 is only recently stable, folks probably just haven't spent much time on the Windows port(s). There's no question the focus of gtk and related libraries is for *nix/X, but there's enough interest in Windows ports that it will probably be reality in the not too distant future (don't think anyone's attemping or wants to port to pre-MacOS X). I'm no authority on where GTK is at in its portability attempts, but it's clear from the API interfaces that they intend to port it as widely as possible (otherwise, why wouldn't they just use the POSIX interfaces for many of the functions?).