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,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Received: by 2002:a24:54:: with SMTP id 81-v6mr3134468ita.4.1524428053123; Sun, 22 Apr 2018 13:14:13 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 2002:a9d:5191:: with SMTP id y17-v6mr269760otg.12.1524428052895; Sun, 22 Apr 2018 13:14:12 -0700 (PDT) Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.uzoreto.com!weretis.net!feeder6.news.weretis.net!feeder.usenetexpress.com!feeder-in1.iad1.usenetexpress.com!peer01.iad!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!f63-v6no2649301itc.0!news-out.google.com!b185-v6ni1935itb.0!nntp.google.com!f63-v6no2649298itc.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2018 13:14:12 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=2a02:1206:45c6:8b20:3d1e:c1d:491b:72ac; posting-account=-L4u0woAAAAHsP2A4cuFB4u__9jPaUJJ NNTP-Posting-Host: 2a02:1206:45c6:8b20:3d1e:c1d:491b:72ac References: <1c73f159-eae4-4ae7-a348-03964b007197@googlegroups.com> <06a8980d-21bb-4067-b22d-7d1f89342948@googlegroups.com> <19c7a205-0a82-477b-9254-01af786f467e@googlegroups.com> <06adad02-803a-4dc7-b5d8-f9a5d8faa3ab@googlegroups.com> User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: Subject: Re: How to get Ada to ?cross the chasm?? From: gautier.de.montmollin@gmail.com Injection-Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2018 20:14:13 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Received-Bytes: 2746 X-Received-Body-CRC: 3772348473 Xref: reader02.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:51672 Date: 2018-04-22T13:14:12-07:00 List-Id: Le vendredi 20 avril 2018 19:45:52 UTC+2, Dan'l Miller a =C3=A9crit=C2=A0: > On Friday, April 20, 2018 at 11:32:22 AM UTC-5, gautier...@hotmail.com wr= ote: > > There is an alternative to a thin win32 wrapper: GNAT FSF and GWindows = ( https://sourceforge.net/projects/gnavi/ ). > > Cost 0$. >=20 > Licensed under GPLv2. Website offers absolutely no non-GPL/nonviral lice= nse for a license fee. > Hence, licensed for use by only copylefted software. Actually GWindows is GMGPL (look at the code, the SF page is unaccurate on = this point). > Does not support modern Microsoft era: WPF, WinRT =3D UWP, XAML, Windows= Store. That's a big advantage, at least regarding WPF. At the job we are reprogram= ming a legacy interface that was done with WPF 5 years ago and is desperate= ly slow despite lots of efforts, and the result (after 2 days of developmen= t) displays the same thing (actually much more) in 1 second when the WPF ve= rsion took 1 minute (so, a factor 60). The lesson: don't get fooled by Microsoft's marketing, especially on produc= ts that they don't use themselves!