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: 103376,7b11d18bd955d946 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-01-30 10:54:44 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!129.240.148.23!uio.no!ntnu.no!not-for-mail From: Preben Randhol Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Porting Ada / Motif code from VMS to Solaris Followup-To: comp.lang.ada Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 18:54:43 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Norwegian university of science and technology Message-ID: References: <48581c38.0201300954.39daed48@posting.google.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: kiuk0156.chembio.ntnu.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: tyfon.itea.ntnu.no 1012416883 11094 129.241.83.82 (30 Jan 2002 18:54:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@itea.ntnu.no NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 18:54:43 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: slrn/0.9.7.3 (Linux) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:19391 Date: 2002-01-30T18:54:43+00:00 List-Id: 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.�