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From: Simon Johnston <skj@ACM.ORG>
Subject: Re: GNAT GARLIC implementation
Date: 1996/05/02
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> I would like to try porting the Ada 95 Distributed Systems Annex E, as
> implemented by GARLIC for GNAT, to Win NT and 95.

Good man! I could do with a working copy of this Annex to understand its
implication for projects I am working on.

> The GNAT library source code has many references to the GARLIC package
> inside System.RPC but GARLIC itself is not included in the source.

Nope, I believe it is a seperate project being done in Europe by Cyrille
Cromar? I don't know about the name exactly.

> No response yet from ACT concerning how to get a copy of GARLIC.
> Does GARLIC fall under the GNU licensing terms or is it
> a separate product?  In the latter case, will I still be
> able to place my port under the FSF copy-left domain?

It is a seperate FSF product, the same as GNAT itself, but where you get it
from and how you build/port/use it I don't know.

> I became interested in this because (as Scott Moody has pointed out)
> Ada distribution through automated remote call interfaces
> seems much simpler to use than CORBA and other network interfaces.

Firstly I think it would be simpler, and secondly I think it is a very
important addition to the language and the more people using it and
understanding its implications and possible problems the better.

> Right now, I can get two local or networked Windows Ada programs
> to talk to each other via sockets but I would rather use an abstraction
> like that described in Annex E.

Absolutely.

> Paul Pukite
> puk@maroon.tc.umn.edu

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