Gour writes: >> Welcome back to Ada :) > > After evaluating the status of Qt bindings for .NET/Mono, I've decided > to settle on Ada and try witz Qt bindings. > > There is no perfect language (I am also not), so I'm sure that Ada > presents some of the top notch langauges and that it's capable to > serve realization of my project providing decent performance, > type-safety and ease of maintenance. > > Moreover, I believe that if/when gtk2 get dropped, AdaCore will > provide some GUI solution if Qt bindings fail for some reason.
AdaCore provide GtkAda 3 as part of GNAT GPL 2013. They plan to drop support for GtkAda 2 in the future, so as far as they are concerned, the future of GUI is GtkAda 3. > Considering that some time ago l've switched to Debian (after I spent > more that 10 yrs with Gentoo & Arch) in order to reduce admin time > required to keep my OS sane, now I would like to know how could I help > the best to improve Ada toolchain in Debian? (I run x86_64 Sid.) Thanks a lot. Your first steps are listed here: http://lists.debian.org/debian-ada/2010/03/msg00003.html Since you are mostly interested in packaging QtAda, I suggest this roadmap: 1. install gnat-4.6 and Qt from the Debian repository 2. install and build QtAda from sources (select one or the other binding) 3. if step 2 requires patching QtAda or the build scripts of QtAda, send the patches upstream 4. start packaging QtAda for Debian 5. send an email to this list requesting for a sponsor to upload your package to Debian 6. when gnat-4.8 reaches unstable, update the packaging Don't hold your breath for gnat-4.8 though because I'm having problems finding the time to work on it. -- Ludovic Brenta. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
