Ada_GUI VS alire

Improvments to Ada GUI and a result change to the Ada-GUI version of Mine Detector

Improvements to Ada GUI

Some changes to the description of the King language. Some improvements and a new component in the PragmAda Reusable Components. Writing a summary of the FOSDEM presentation on [Ada GUI][https://github.com/jrcarter/Ada_GUI) for the Ada User Journal.

(Actually, for a GUI, the solution is to use a portable GUI such as Ada GUI, but for other cases this approach may be needed.)

Added additional dialogs to Ada GUI.

I did some work on Ada GUI and incorporated D. Norte de Moraes' 512- and 1024-bit versions of Threefish into the PragmARCs. I also prepared a presentation on Ada GUI for FOSDEM.

The only things I mentioned in What did You Work On posts are Ada GUI and King.

Improvements to Ada GUI.

My preference is for portability and Ada, so I like Ada GUI.

I'm working towards creating a direct implementation of Ada_GUI. I have something mostly work9ng, but it's rather ugly.

> I don't know if this tool solves the problem

Not yet but it's on my list as a "phase 2" of sorts for getada. I have an alpine VPS that I'm playing around with but the main issue is that while alire can be built for alpine, any compilers it pulls from its toolchain won't work with it since none of them are built against musl. We've been talking about it here https://github.com/alire-project/alire/issues/792#issuecomme...

Join the club! And see this issue.

Alire brings in msys2, so that's why I'm curious if it's still working on Windows. Easiest way to install alire on Windows is through the installer linked on their main website.

We are considering if Alire should change defaults in regard to dealing with Unicode sources. The details are https://github.com/alire-project/alire/discussions/1334 if you're interested and want to provide some feedback.

It's also worth mentioning that Ada and SPARK are very easy to pick up these days. There's Cargo-like tool Alire [1], Ada Language Server [2], official VSCode plugin [3] and Open VSX plugin [4], Emacs Ada mode [5] and GNAT Studio [6]. With Alire one can easily install GNAT FSF builds (meaning GPL with linking exception) and SPARK tools. All libre software.

Not to mention Ada being really versatile and well thought out language.

[1] https://github.com/alire-project/alire

#1157 on Alire's GitHub page raises this issue as well. I've placed a comment over there. If the website's code is located on GitHub, it would be easier for users to contribute and get deployed automatically.