Re: GtkAda on Windows: Does anyone have a gtkada.gpr file?

["Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>]

On Mon, 18 Oct 2010 05:43:39 -0700 (PDT), Ludovic Brenta wrote:

> Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote on comp.lang.ada:
>> On Sun, 17 Oct 2010 14:32:25 -0700 (PDT), Michael R wrote:
>>> I've just starting to look at GtkAda on Windows. �My Ubuntu system
>>> makes it relatively easy by supplying a gtkada2.gpr project file.
>>
>> Yep, instead of gtkada.gpr they invented gtkada2.gpr.
> 
> "They" were me and the reason was that I wanted to support both GtkAda
> 1.x and 2.x on the same machine; that never happened for lack of
> manpower.

So it was you! (:-))

There was no need to introduce two gpr files as you could switch between
versions within one gtkada.gpr using a scenario variable. This is how I
deal with incompatible GtkAda changes made between 2.14.0 and 2.14.2.

> I think your remark is a bit offensive given all
> the hard work I put in the Debian compiler.

I didn't mean to offend anybody, just pointed out a potential problem.

Of course I appreciate you and all others who are fixing the compiler. That
is without a question.

> In particular I backported
> a lot of bug fixes into gnat-4.4, some even at your request (e.g.
> http://bugs.debian.org/589164). Unless Fedora has the same level of
> support and the same backported fixes, you should not imply that the
> Debian and Fedora compilers are identical.

I don't. But Debian GNAT is still broken. I checked it two days ago under
fully updated squeeze. Controlled types are broken.

Sorry for misunderstanding. I had an impression that the OP wanted to
design a cross-platform GtkAda-based application. Since I had spent
(wasted) a lot of time on this stuff I wished to warn him. This won't work
with the FSF GNAT, because of compiler bugs, because of incompatible GtkAda
distributions. Use GNAT GPL 2010 and patiently wait until FSF catches up.

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Regards,
Dmitry A. Kazakov
http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de