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 X-Google-Thread: 103376,5114c1c6ad71f555 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-01-03 14:03:02 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!canoe.uoregon.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!newsfeed.cs.utexas.edu!geraldo.cc.utexas.edu!not-for-mail From: "Bobby D. Bryant" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: New Ada binding to OpenGL Date: Fri, 03 Jan 2003 15:57:58 -0600 Organization: dis- Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: dial-34-4.ots.utexas.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: geraldo.cc.utexas.edu 1041631259 362 128.83.111.84 (3 Jan 2003 22:00:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@utexas.edu NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2003 22:00:59 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Pan/0.13.3 (That cat's something I can't explain) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:32506 Date: 2003-01-03T15:57:58-06:00 List-Id: On Mon, 30 Dec 2002 21:50:20 +0100, Joachim Schr�er wrote: > 3) Generally I would not add anything to the binding or alter the > binding generator output more than necessary. It is a thin binding and > should represent the original C binding as far as possible (so you can > use the C based literature). The only requirements: The binding should > work and be platform independed (see remarks below). Some of us would greatly prefer thick bindings. IMO GtkAda is the paradigm for how this sort of thing should be done. Sure is a lot of work for something as big as GTK+ or OpenGL, though. Bobby Bryant Austin, Texas