Re: Ada Monthly Meeting proposal

[Rod Kay <rodakay5@gmail.com>]

On 30/4/22 23:57, Ada Forge wrote:
> Le mardi 26 avril 2022 à 21:59:41 UTC+2, Fernando Oleo Blanco a écrit :
>> * Ada Monthly meeting
> 
> Nice initiative !
> 
> Take me into account ;-)

    Agree. Count me in Fer :).


> 
> Some subjects I’d love to debate with connoisseurs :
>   * UTF8-Unicode-UCS :  a lot of libraries are offering strings manipulation. State of the art ? (Gnat extensions, GnatColl, Matreska, Gnoga, ...)
>   * OS system usage (as (system shell) scripts, in place of Perl, Python, …) : GNAT extensions ; Florist ; GnatColl ; SoWebIO; ...
>   * Windowing (2D) systems : future of GTK/Glade ; Qt6/Qt Design Studio ; GWindows ; Apple new SwiftUI MV paradigm ; wxWidgets ; Tk/TCL
>   * How let anyone collaborate to AdaForge’s new up-todate 2022 Ada resources gathered allover the internet ;-) Through GitHub ?
>   
> cheers, with a fresh Belgian Ada 10°
> William

    If by 'OS system usage' you mean using Ada to write shell-like 
scripts then you may be interested in aShell. It builds on Florist to 
allow Ada applets to more easily call and interact with OS commands.

    The last release allowed OS commands to be called but only from a 
single Ada task. Atm, work is being done on supporting task safe 
commands (via a spawn manager).

    The next release will contain the task safe commands and be Alire 
enabled, and should occur in the next month or so (Lady Ada willing).


Regards.