From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.6 (2021-04-09) on ip-172-31-65-14.ec2.internal X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,FORGED_GMAIL_RCVD, FREEMAIL_FROM,NICE_REPLY_A autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.6 Path: eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Rod Kay Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada Monthly Meeting proposal Date: Sun, 1 May 2022 02:33:47 +1000 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: <20220426215932.101f4503@linux.fritz.box> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2022 16:33:47 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: reader02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="e6fa93f6ca150e2c482fadd27729d710"; logging-data="14718"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/VAYhfXXfU/KPd6f53U+rxkRw2KwHoKrg=" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:91.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/91.8.1 Cancel-Lock: sha1:ltwNyvciUWp06deFW+UGq8Jbcgk= In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US Xref: reader02.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:63790 List-Id: 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.