[gtkada] portability of gtk

[Thomas De Contes]

Le vendredi, 6 juin 2003, à 09:07 Europe/Paris, Jean-Etienne Doucet a 
écrit :

> Recently, I had to port a small prog developped on Sun Solaris,
> written in Ada95 and using GtkAda 1.3.12, unto a PC with Windows XP 
> Pro.
>
> It compiled fine at once.
> The only problem I've had was to replace calls to function Parse (for 
> Gdk_Color)
> by calls to proc Set_RGB.
>
> So, it took me approx. 5 minutes to have my program running well on 
> the PC.
>
> Another experience is with students (at INSA Toulouse) who had to write
> a program using GtkAda: they worked partly at school with Linux 
> (sorry, I can't
> remember which one) and partly at home with various flavours of 
> Windows.
> The only problem they had was the same I've had, with the Parse 
> function.

interesting :-) ...

so, do you know what gtkada team made with this function ?
is it deliberate ?
if not, why didn't they correct it, to make gtkada completely portable ?

i say that because,
it's very nice that it's nearly completely portable :-)
but i don't have at my disposal all sort of systems, and then if it's 
not completely portable it can be annoying ...