Re: RAPID

[Shark8 <onewingedshark@gmail.com>]

On Monday, April 12, 2021 at 3:28:15 PM UTC-6, Thomas wrote:
> In article <cc5120b0-152b-4639>,
> Shark8 wrote: 
> 
> > On Monday, April 12, 2021 at 12:04:53 PM UTC-6, Thomas wrote: 
> > > In article <31164e74-92d2-4424>, 
> > > Shark8 wrote: 
> 
> > > > I'm on Windows and Solaris and Linux here, we might get Macintosh from 
> > > > long-term visitors. 
> > > ok :-) 
> > > 
> > > what's your relation with RAPID ? 
> > > (are you a user ? are you interested ? ...) 
> 
> > Not a user, currently. 
> > But interested, and having a nice cross-platform common-UI would make things 
> > a lot nicer for some prospective software-upgrades at work.
> ok :-)
> > One such possible nicety would be a universal administration tool, another 
> > would be a data-management/-analysis tool for visiting scientists, another 
> > possibility would be decoupling several control-programs (codebases in 
> > everything from C to VB to C#) used to operate the instrumentation here from 
> > their host-systems and increase portability.
> not sure to understand all what theese tools are doing, 
> 
> do you think that you understood what RAPID does, 
> and that it could help you to make all UI of theese tools ? 
Perhaps I should explain: where I am we have a system that was grown over the space of 30 years, portions are custom programs, portions are things like cron-jobs.
I would ultimately like to clean things up so that there is minimal dependence on OSes, allowing us to change out as-needed, and using a single language (Ada) to increase maintainability and correctness/consistency of the system.

> i would like to ask you to try to compile RAPID and test it, 
> 
> 
> before i need to ask you: 
> 
> - if you have a subversion client. 
> on Linux it shouldn't be a problem. 
> that's only for the time you want to test my patches, you needn't it for 
> public versions. 
> for the other platforms you should be able to copy the code internally, 
> from the Linux one.
Hm, I see... it might take me a bit to set up a linux computer for such use; we have training for new personnel and the computer I would use is time-shared with operations, so I'll have to make sure the system is free when I want to do things.

> - which kind of graphical toolkits are available, on each platform you 
> need to run RAPID (or what it will have generated).
I'm not entirely sure about the full set yet; the most-used UI for the system is a Java program, run under Solaris.

> i don't think it's important your tools are currently using the same 
> toolkit than RAPID, if you plan to re-do UI from sratch, but i may be 
> wrong.
> -- 
> RAPID maintainer 
> http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/rapid/