From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,3e26dfa741e64e5f X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Path: g2news1.google.com!postnews.google.com!g49g2000cwa.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: "Ludovic Brenta" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: GNAT GPL 2005 Edition is now available Date: 15 Sep 2005 01:44:16 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1126773856.876636.265130@g49g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> References: <432919be$0$10539$4d4eb98e@read.news.fr.uu.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: 212.190.145.10 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1126773862 10780 127.0.0.1 (15 Sep 2005 08:44:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 08:44:22 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: User-Agent: G2/0.2 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS sun4u; fr-FR; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040116,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) X-HTTP-Via: 1.1 SEVPXS01 Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: g49g2000cwa.googlegroups.com; posting-host=212.190.145.10; posting-account=ZjNXewwAAADyBPkwI57_UcX8yKfXWOss Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:4684 Date: 2005-09-15T01:44:16-07:00 List-Id: Jacob Sparre Andersen a =E9crit : > Jamie Ayre wrote: > > > AdaCore announces the immediate availability of the GNAT GPL 2005 > > Edition. > > Unfortunately it appears that I am not - in my professional capacity > - among the intended users (and you have to declare your purpose, > before you get to download the compiler). :-( > > I will stick to the GNU Ada compiler supplied by Debian, so I don't > have to use different compilers at work and at home. Out of curiosity, which one of the GNATs supplied by Debian do you use? Sarge has gnat (3.15p), gnat-3.3 (3.3.6) and gnat-3.4 (3.4.3). All of them use the GMGPL for the run-time library. Etch (currently in testing and in a state of flux) has gnat (3.15p), gnat-3.4 (3.4.4) and gnat-4.0 (4.0.1). I've downloaded GNAT GPL 2005 Edition and will review it as time permits. If I execute on my previously published Debian Policy for Ada, this GPL Edition will become the next "gnat" package in Debian Etch. The fact that the run-time library uses the GPL is not a problem for me, nor is it for Debian (for example, Debian already supplies Qt which is also GPL). However, if sufficiently many people object to this, I will reconsider. As of now, there are several possible choices for the next default Ada compiler in Debian: * GNAT GPL 2005 Edition, with libgnat under GPL (from libre.adacore.com) * gnat-3.4, with libgnat-3.4 under GMGPL (from gcc.gnu.org) * gnat-4.0, with libgnat-4.0 under GMGPL (from gcc.gnu.org) * gnat-3.4 from gcc.gnu.org, with patches merged from GNAT GPL 2005 Edition, retaining the libgnat-3.4 under GMGPL. This means much more work for me, and I invite contributions. This also means that this compiler will be different from compilers in all other distributions. Please take into account that recent versions of ASIS and GLADE are only available under GPL, not GMGPL. The same is true for AWS, GtkAda, XML/Ada etc. but is less of a concern because these libraries are not tightly coupled with the compiler. Please cast a vote on this forum. This is the time to influence the next version of Debian. --=20 Ludovic Brenta.