From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.5-pre1 (2020-06-20) on ip-172-31-74-118.ec2.internal X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.5-pre1 X-Received: by 2002:a37:9c4d:: with SMTP id f74mr3783224qke.202.1618495977512; Thu, 15 Apr 2021 07:12:57 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 2002:a25:705:: with SMTP id 5mr4467761ybh.339.1618495977248; Thu, 15 Apr 2021 07:12:57 -0700 (PDT) Path: eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.mixmin.net!proxad.net!feeder1-2.proxad.net!209.85.160.216.MISMATCH!news-out.google.com!nntp.google.com!postnews.google.com!google-groups.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2021 07:12:57 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Injection-Info: google-groups.googlegroups.com; posting-host=146.5.2.231; posting-account=lJ3JNwoAAAAQfH3VV9vttJLkThaxtTfC NNTP-Posting-Host: 146.5.2.231 References: <31164e74-92d2-4424-9248-e6360dff9f4bn@googlegroups.com> User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: Subject: Re: RAPID From: Shark8 Injection-Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2021 14:12:57 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Xref: reader02.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:61795 List-Id: On Monday, April 12, 2021 at 3:28:15 PM UTC-6, Thomas wrote: > In article , > 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/