Re: The GNU Ada: Homepage online.

[Martin Krischik <krischik@users.sourceforge.net>]

Ludovic Brenta wrote:

> Martin Krischik <krischik@users.sourceforge.net> writes:
> 
>> Hello,
>>
>> I also got the homepage online today. The first page added is about
>> creating RPM packages. As I said: this project can only be a success if
>> as many maintainers join in to provide as many platforms as possible.
>>
>> There where lots of discussion about the GNAT/GPL edition and that we
>> need GMGPL editions as well. And that a comunity effort might help here.
>> Now here we are.
>>
>> And while the compile takes several hours typing "rpmbuild -ba" won't
>> take more then a few seconds. So we should at least get a good collection
>> of rpm based packages out of the door.
>>
>> Martin
> 
> Do you have any plans to coordinate this with the GCC maintainers of
> all RPM-based distributions?  It would be nice if these "community"
> builds of GNAT showed up as the default in Fedora, Red Hat, Mandriva
> and SuSE.

That would be nice indeed. I have to see. One step at a time. First we need
to see if the packages are ok - nobody apart from me tested them. Then we
need the libraries as well.

> Of course, this is already the case in Debian and FreeBSD :)

Yes, real comunity distribution. It might be easier to add something there
then in the comertial distribution.
 
> I'm starting to work on the transition from gnat to GCC 4.1 now.  I
> will give an update on this transition during the FOSDEM in late
> February.

BTW: There is a 2nd part to the project: A repository of script files to
create the packages. Perhaps you would like to share the scripts you use?
 
Martin
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