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-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2180 X-RFC2646: Format=Flowed; Response Message-ID: Date: Fri, 01 Oct 2004 15:50:55 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 141.149.82.128 X-Complaints-To: abuse@verizon.net X-Trace: trndny07 1096645855 141.149.82.128 (Fri, 01 Oct 2004 11:50:55 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 01 Oct 2004 11:50:55 EDT Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:4513 Date: 2004-10-01T15:50:55+00:00 List-Id: "Marius Amado Alves" wrote in message news:mailman.146.1096645193.390.comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org... > >>>>>Database support is essential. If Claw is weaker than GWindows on >>>>>database support, that is a major strike against it.... >>> >>>Duh? Was the project not a GUI library? What that has to do with >>>database? >>> >>>(Could not find the original post by Fionn apud Stephen) >> >> It was never just a GUI library problem - GWindows supplies both a GUI >> library and a databae library, and I need and use both. > > I also need both food and soap, but I don't keep them together :-) > > So it seems what you want is a set of facilities for development of a > certain class of applications. Not pressing at all but I'd love to see a > description of it. > > Otherwise it's like the Common Ada Library idea again. > > What I liked in the forming GWindows/Claw project was that it seemed to be > about one well defined and manageable area, GUI. Oh well... > Well whether it's GWindows, CLAW or GWindows And CLAW...it's still a GUI project. We wouldn't coding databases, at least not creating it, it's already existent.