Re: Recompiling?

["Ludovic Brenta" <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>]

Simon Wright a écrit :

> "Ludovic Brenta" <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org> writes:
>
> > Package the Booch components for your distribution.  Follow the
> > GNU Ada Environment Specification[1].  Provide a GNAT project
> > file, as explained in detail in [2].
> >
> > [1] http://cert.uni-stuttgart.de/projects/ada/gnae.php
> > [2] http://www.ada-france.org/debian/debian-ada-policy.html
>
> Looked at your [1]; it looks very "official" but it gives no
> context that I can see. What organisation is proposing it? what
> universe does it fit into? is it only intended for Debian? what
> about Windows? MacOS? what do AdaCore think? FSF? It refers to a
> GNAT Filesystem Hierarchy Standard proposal by Jürgen Pfeifer but
> gives no link? (perhaps this document _is_ the FHS?)

GNAE is primarily written for GNU/Linux, *BSD, and Unix platforms.
The FHS (Filesystem Hierarchy Standard)[3] is a unifying standard for
all GNU/Linux distributions.  The organisation behind GNAE is Florian
Weimer, who is perhaps listening.  He took ideas from Jürgen Pfeifer,
who led the Ada for Linux team[4] for a while.

[3] http://www.pathname.com/fhs/
[4] http://www.gnuada.org/alt.html

Debian now implements part of the GNAE.  It implements the filesystem
but not the "adainstall" and "adaconfig" commands, which are replaced
with "apt-get" and GNAT project files, respectively. In fact, I would
support a change in GNAE to mandate project files and drop "adaconfig".

I see that Martin Krischik offers RPM packages of GNADE and other
things for SuSe and Red Hat, but I don't know if these packages comply
with the GNAE.

I'm not aware of a MacOS X distribution of Ada packages, but if there
is one, I hope it follows the GNAE too.

The only Ada distribution I know for Windows is AIDE, but it does not
seem to comply with GNAE (but I haven't looked at 1.03).

I don't know what AdaCore or the FSF think of GNAE.  Florian?

-- 
Ludovic Brenta.