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: 103376,3c5e23c031225d31 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!news.glorb.com!newsfeed.utanet.at!newsfeed.inode.at!news.hispeed.ch!linux2.krischik.com!news From: Martin Krischik Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: The GNU Ada: Homepage online. Date: Sun, 18 Dec 2005 22:13:00 +0100 Organization: Cablecom Newsserver Message-ID: <1972990.42YNlCzX74@linux1.krischik.com> References: <3490357.dTMrdDNTne@linux1.krischik.com> <87wti2rz82.fsf@ludovic-brenta.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: 80-218-112-22.dclient.hispeed.ch Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Trace: news.hispeed.ch 1134940504 4797 80.218.112.22 (18 Dec 2005 21:15:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@hispeed.ch NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 18 Dec 2005 21:15:04 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: KNode/0.10 Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:6922 Date: 2005-12-18T22:13:00+01:00 List-Id: Ludovic Brenta wrote: > Martin Krischik 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 -- mailto://krischik@users.sourceforge.net Ada programming at: http://ada.krischik.com