Re: Development process in the Ada community

["David Botton" <David@Botton.com>]

<tmoran@acm.org> wrote in message
news:QEtw8.3627$eg5.1828187369@newssvr14.news.prodigy.com...
> > Imagine if my development efforts would have been used to modify and
extend
> > CLAW instead of writing GWindows......
>   I have, and I think it a great loss to the Ada community that you
didn't.

Your lic. wasn't condusive to it..... I agree, sad.

> >GWindows covers almost all areas of CLAW (some intentionally not covered)
> >and is way beyond it in other areas (database to control bindings,
ActiveX,
>   David, it's good to see someone take pride in their product, but IMHO
> you exaggerate more than a bit.

But less than a byte.... Note that I am not knocking your framework, I think
it is a masterful work and only regret that it was not available under
different lic. terms.

These em' not fightin' words.... It just happens to be that I support
certain areas CLAW doesn't and a few other areas I do support CLAW is a bit
more thorough. If you had a better lic. you would of course be able to grab
some code for GWindows and GNATCOM...... but oh well.

>   Is GWindows then the basis of some standard?

In the same way the Java AWT and SWING is the basis of a standard ;-O

>  Has it been extended by
> the wider community?

Yes, there have been a number of additions (including entire features not
just bug fixes!). The greatest complement in the world is that some one has
extended your work and sent it back in for others to use. Their efforts are
more knoble than mine!

> Is it under as active development as Claw?

Yes. I saddly have to take breaks here and there for extend amounts of time
do to work load from the "other side", but my track record shows that I get
more than a bit done in the days and months I manage to grab here and there
(though they may be far apart....) :-)

I am often envious that you have the opportunity to work full time in Ada
and on your Ada based projects (in part perhaps do to your restrictive
lic.), but in the long term I believe that my approach will pay off in a
larger way (part of which concerns money, but certainly satisfaction comes
not only in the financial arena).

I am certainly already more satisified on a personal level than with any of
what I have produced under traditional terms and licences (Although I do get
a kick out of detecting a company is using software I wrote for their phone
systems from my last gig).

>  As to
> outliving its developers, we'll have to leave that to others to see. ;)

Perhaps, but hopefully we will both be around for another 180 years to see
others enjoy our work. Perhaps by then CLAW will well then be lic. with the
GMGPL unless of course Ada takes over than GPL.....

David Botton