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From: "Ludovic Brenta" <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>
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Subject: Re: GNAT GPL 2005 Edition is now available
Date: 15 Sep 2005 03:15:23 -0700
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Brian May a =E9crit :

> >>>>> "Ludovic" =3D=3D Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org> writes:
>
>     Ludovic> As of now, there are several possible choices for the
>     Ludovic> next default Ada compiler in Debian:
>
>     Ludovic> * GNAT GPL 2005 Edition, with libgnat under GPL (from
>     Ludovic> libre.adacore.com)
>
>     Ludovic> * gnat-4.0, with libgnat-4.0 under GMGPL (from gcc.gnu.org)
>
> I would suggest one of the above two. I would tend to prefer gnat-4.0
> if anything, but I suspect GNAT GPL 2005 might have better Ada2005
> support (true/false?).

As I said, I will review GNAT GPL 2005 Edition as time permits, and
this
will be one area of investigation.  I anticipate that GNAT GPL 2005
Edition will be on par, or even better than gnat-4.0 WRT Ada 2005.
However, I also anticipate that ASIS and GLADE will be difficult to
port to gnat-4.0, but this needs to be investigated.

> The licensing issue is not an issue for me. Would it be
> possible/practical to develop the library packages in such a way they
> can be recompiled against another compiler if desired?

Well, I wouldn't think this is necessary; instead, you'd want to
compile with GNAT GPL 2005 Edition but link against libgnat-3.4 or
libgnat-4.0 (GMGPL).  I would think you can use -lgnat-x.y to achieve
this, without the need to patch the compiler.

> As a wishlist, I would also ask for a Debian package of GNAT GPL 2005
> that will install (or at least compile) on sarge... ;-)

This should be easy to achieve, *if* I package GNAT GPL 2005 Edition.
This discussion will decide that.

OTOH, I don't see much value in doing this: you can just download
AdaCore's binaries.

--=20
Ludovic Brenta.