From: Preben Randhol <randhol+abuse@pvv.org>
Subject: Re: Porting Ada / Motif code from VMS to Solaris
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 18:54:43 +0000 (UTC)
Date: 2002-01-30T18:54:43+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <slrna5ggfc.497.randhol+abuse@kiuk0156.chembio.ntnu.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 48581c38.0201300954.39daed48@posting.google.com
On 30 Jan 2002 09:54:39 -0800, George wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I'm attempting what I hope will be a fairly straight forward
> project. We are migrating some tools from an older VAX platform to
> Solaris. The tool depens heavily on a GUI developed using Motif and
> its UIL.
>
> One option is to rewrite the interface in something like GtkAda and
> attempt to connect the new interface to the original base code. This
> approach would be the most intensive.
Yes, but it would then also run on Linux and Windows and possibly mac
too. So if one wants to use Linux later then a recompile should be
enough (assuming that there are no other OS dependent routines in the
source of course)
> The other approach would be to find replacement libraries (Motif,
> X) so that the majority of the code can be recompiled. (cheap or free
> if possible)
Lesstif is free (isn't motif also now?)
--
Preben Randhol �For me, Ada95 puts back the joy in programming.�
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2002-01-30 17:54 Porting Ada / Motif code from VMS to Solaris George
2002-01-30 18:54 ` Preben Randhol [this message]
2002-02-01 15:28 ` Jean-Claude MAHIEUX
2002-01-30 19:46 ` Larry Kilgallen
2002-01-31 8:20 ` Alan Coopersmith
2002-01-31 15:31 ` Ted Dennison
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