Re: Status of GNADE

[Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org>]

Tomek Wałkuski <tomek.walkuski@gmail.com> writes:

> Really fast question: what is the status of GNADE? Is it still
> maintained?

It's easy to ask a question "fast", but not so easy to answer it.

I'm listed as a developer on the SourceForge GNADE website
http://gnade.sourceforge.net/, but I haven't done any work on it for 5
years. 

Other people have done some work.

I'm getting back into it now.

If you look at the CVS history, you'll see some recent changes.

I'm always a little puzzled by questions like this. If GNADE is
currently useful for you, then you should use it. If it has problems
that you need fixed, ask about them here. If no-one responds, and you
can't fix it yourself, then you can conclude that GNADE is not
maintained.

I guess it would be nice to have some notion of whether someone
_would_ respond, so you can decide whether to invest time in GNADE or
QtSQL or GNATCOLL.SQL. Then you just have to go by the reputation of
the maintaining organization. SourceForge groups in general will be
less reliable than successful companies, but there are always
exceptions (the all-volunteer monotone support group is _way_ better
than a certain commerical OS company I am forced to deal with).

So I'm suggesting that a more useful question would be "has anyone had
any recent experience with getting help with GNADE". That would give
you better information about the current state of the project.

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-- Stephe