Re: GWindows and David Botton

["stephane richard" <stephane.richard@verizon.net>]

"Fionn mac Cuimhaill" <invisible@hiding.from.spam> wrote in message 
news:pe94l0ln3ku677u8bu9f3r9fvm2ab63v5m@4ax.com...
> Has anyone been able to contact David Botton? I need to make a number
> of additions to GWindows, which I use at work. He seems to have little
> or no time for it at present, and I have both the time and the
> necessity to make improvements. I would prefer not to produce a
> different fork of GWindows without asking him about his opinions, as I
> feel that it would be a basic courtesy to get his blessings on the
> project, but I have received no answer to the E-mail that I sent to
> him, and I can't tell if he just has no time for even e-mail, or if an
> overzealous spam filter has blocked communication with him.
>
> I need to make extensive additions to printing support, which is at
> present a fairly thin binding to the Windows printing API.
>
> I also need to make additions to the support for databases.
>
> The  Gwindows/GNATCOM mailing list seems to be defunct, and I would
> also like to find a way to organize a replacement for it.

Hi Fionn,

I think the best thing to do for now is like konad did (in another thread on
comp.lang.ada) and they host their extension to GWindows themselves at least
until David eventually does reply. If you can't host it yourself, I'd be
happy to host your modifications for you on my website
(http://www.adaworld.com) is my website and I have plenty of space..

I'm sure many developers could and would benefit from your modifications so
I would gladly accept to host them for you.

I'm also trying to get in touch with David myself for another GWindows
related issue (the one with Konad in which a possible merger of their
modification into the official GWindows release if possible and all hosting
on Ada World).. Perhaps a merger of all three could be possible?

Stephane Richard
"Ada World" webmaster
http://www.adaworld.com