From: "Maciej Bliziński" <maciej@opencsw.org>
Subject: Re: GNAT binary packages for Solaris
Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2011 07:17:22 -0800 (PST)
Date: 2011-12-09T07:17:22-08:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <13856982.378.1323443842859.JavaMail.geo-discussion-forums@yqbf19> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5dc45ffc-51a0-4201-b9fc-751d694cb778@o9g2000vbc.googlegroups.com>
For the time being, I care about the GNAT packages being operational, so that if someone tries to use them, they'll work. As far as building the full ADA development platform, I'd be happy to work on it if there's interest.
OpenCSW is primarily a packaging effort, so any time someone files a request[1], we look into it and create the package, if at all possible. We haven't had any requests for Ada libraries so far. There's a couple of possibilities why that might be the case:
1. there are no people who work with Ada on Solaris
2. people who work with Ada on Solaris don't use OpenCSW packages
3. people who work with Ada on Solaris do use OpenCSW packages, but are shy
I'd like to find out, which of these is most likely to be true. If 3 is true (certainly my favorite), OpenCSW would take feedback from users and improve the packages. If 1 is true, then we could drop gnat packages altogether. If 2 is true, I'd like to find out how/where do they get the binaries, and if there's a chance OpenCSW could provide better packages.
Maciej
[1] http://www.opencsw.org/requestPackage/
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2011-12-07 8:53 GNAT binary packages for Solaris Maciej Bliziński
2011-12-07 11:20 ` Ludovic Brenta
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