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-Thread: 103376,ed34204f6da15e19 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news2.google.com!news3.google.com!newshub.sdsu.edu!elnk-nf2-pas!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!newsread2.news.pas.earthlink.net.POSTED!56fb6cac!not-for-mail From: "Marc A. Criley" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20030225 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: DTraq Released References: <44916CA0.9080909@earthlink.net> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2006 13:23:39 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 4.153.26.48 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread2.news.pas.earthlink.net 1150809819 4.153.26.48 (Tue, 20 Jun 2006 06:23:39 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2006 06:23:39 PDT Organization: EarthLink Inc. -- http://www.EarthLink.net Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:4854 Date: 2006-06-20T13:23:39+00:00 List-Id: Simon Wright wrote: > Thanks for a valuable discussion. > > The only reason I got involved was that I felt that people were > getting the wrong end of the stick about GPL licensing and the impact > on their own code, which is as we all know an emotive issue round > here. Agreed, on both counts :-) Licensing can get tricky, particularly when part of the product has to get compiled/linked into the client. > A question -- is DTraq endian-independent? that is, could the client > be a PowerPC (in our case, running VxWorks) and the logging server be > an Intel machine? We achieve this using the stream attributes, with a > special little-endian System.Stream_Attributes body that converts > to/from the native PPC form. This has the advantage that the target > runtime is the vendor's, unmodified. At the moment, no. I have the approach worked out for adding that, but its addition has to compete with numerous other improvements on the list :-) -- Marc A. Criley -- McKae Technologies -- www.mckae.com -- DTraq - XPath In Ada - XML EZ Out