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,a875d9649dde34e3 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!cyclone1.gnilink.net!spamkiller2.gnilink.net!gnilink.net!trndny07.POSTED!da342007!not-for-mail From: "stephane richard" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada References: Subject: Re: GWindows and a future home for it X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2180 X-RFC2646: Format=Flowed; Original X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2180 Message-ID: Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 02:53:16 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 129.44.80.68 X-Complaints-To: abuse@verizon.net X-Trace: trndny07 1096426396 129.44.80.68 (Tue, 28 Sep 2004 22:53:16 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 22:53:16 EDT Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:4355 Date: 2004-09-29T02:53:16+00:00 List-Id: Well if someone goes to sourceforge and registers a project for gwindows .... that can then be ready quickly enough....the problem is CVS ;-). at least for me it is...if anyone has good experience with CVS for file checkins so we can trransfer the codebase to it by all means :-). Not sure how long it will take to create everything..in the mean time (be it a week or a month or two :-) whichever I'll gladly host gwindows on my website until it's ready to send to sourceforge. Mr Stephen Leake? Sounds good to you? hehehe..j/k "Fionn mac Cuimhaill" wrote in message news:es6kl0pddjvs52ch5sd7hp69m8roimj8ih@4ax.com... > Has anyone done any more thinking about a home for GWindows? David > Botton seems to have fallen off the edge of the world, and it occursto > me that his AdaPower web site could do the same thing. It occurs to > me that Adaworld would be a goot temporary location, even if it > eventually moves to Sourceforge or Tigris. That would supply a bit of > insurance in case Adapower's plug gets yanked, and would allow us tp > proceed with development and still have some time to build a consensus > on a future home for GWindows. > > On another front - the proposed bug list. I have an item for it. > This might be described as a restriction rather than a bug; this is in > GWindows.Databases. I was using one of the Field_Value functions to > get a SQL Server datetime value into a variable of type Time (as > defined in Ada.Calendar). The problem is that the range of dates that > can be expressed with a variable of type Time is too narrow, and one > of the GNATCOM routines which converts the date extracted from SQL > Server into a Time choked on a date with a year before 1901. > > GNATCOM and GWindows need a calendar package similar to Ada.Calendar > which is based on a native Windows time representation.