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: 2002-04-20 22:33:37 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!sn-xit-02!sn-post-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail From: "David Botton" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Development process in the Ada community Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2002 01:33:09 -0400 Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com Message-ID: References: <4519e058.0204150645.62003096@posting.google.com> <4519e058.0204170855.16950071@posting.google.com> X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 X-Complaints-To: newsabuse@supernews.com Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:22851 Date: 2002-04-21T01:33:09-04:00 List-Id: "Stephen Leake" wrote in message news:ud6wydz64.fsf@gsfc.nasa.gov... > Windex "competes" directly with Claw and GWindows. I wrote it because > Claw was not open source, and GWindows was not available. I'm not > clear why David Botton wrote GWindows instead of extending Windex. > They do have different designs under the hood. GWindows has a number of fundamental differences in design (the most important to me is multiple event models) and implementation style (the complete lack of thin bindings as a starting point, ie. I prototype the needed Win32 functions with in each call in order to maximize the use of the Ada95 to C mappings). I've always wondered why you didn't take the time to update GWindows with some of the thicker parts of Windex ;-) There are only three thick bindings to Win32 (JEWL is a great teaching tool, but not practical nor intended to be used for professional development), GWindows, Windex and CLAW. A comparison (not updated recently) between GWindows and CLAW is available at http://www.adapower.com/gwindows/GWindowsVsClaw.html I should have an update to GWindows available soon and am back working on the GTK+ bindings and filling in the last gaps for GWindows 1.0 release.... (Sadly, I was sucked out of the Ada world for the last number of months. Although, I did develop an e-learning product using GWindows in Ada during that time.) David Botton