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From: Jean-Pierre Rosen <rosen@adalog.fr>
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Subject: Re: Pragma for conditional compilation? (Ada 2005 vs. 95)
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2007 18:08:55 +0200
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Ludovic Brenta a �crit :
> Jean-Pierre Rosen writes:
>> Library package renaming is a way to achieve the same effect without
>> resorting to CM.
> 
> But what if you want to maintain two versions of the software in
> parallel, like the OP does? You'll want two versions of the renaming.
> I don't see how you'd do that without some sort of configuration
> management system. OK, maybe I'm biased: I haven't worked without a
> configuration management system since 1999 :)
> 
If you have something like:

with OS_Services_Linux;
package OS_Services renames OS_Services_Linux;

You certainly need to edit the source to move to -say- a Windows 
version, but I claim that it is not much more work than changing the 
value of a variable in a Make file....


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