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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
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Subject: Re: Cairo bindings and e-mail license virus bombs
Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2014 21:23:23 +0100
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On Wed, 10 Dec 2014 10:32:51 -0800 (PST), David Botton wrote:

> I do not plan on using the Cairo bindings from AdaCore nor any of the
> AdaCore available bindings since finding this in the GNU/Debian
> distribution of gcc/ada.
> 
> /usr/share/doc/libgtkada2.24.4

David, if you are OK with using outdated Cairo (GTK 2.x) then here are
bindings developed by Damien Carbonne:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/cairoada/

They were better designed than AdaCore's, higher-level, packing ugly
objects in controlled handle types.

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Dmitry A. Kazakov
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