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Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2007 16:04:13 +0100
From: Rico Secada <coolzone@it.dk>
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Subject: Ada lacks support greatly (was: OpenBSD and Ada)
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On Wed, 26 Dec 2007 21:49:15 +0200
Tero Koskinen <tero.koskinen@iki.fi> wrote:

> On Mon, 24 Dec 2007 05:41:54 GMT Paul wrote:
> > What I would like to know though, are there many Ada developers who
> > use OpenBSD?
> 
> I use almost(1) exclusively OpenBSD and Ada and I think I have seen
> something like 4 other people using OpenBSD and Ada more or less
> actively.
> 
> Hardest part of that combination is to get fully featured GNAT built
> and running. GCC in the OpenBSD ports tree has Ada support but lacks
> tasking and some other features. It can be used for bootstrapping, but
> for better support you need to use unofficial ports (2,3).

I think that is the main problem with Ada nowadays. It lacks proper
support on multiple platforms. Unless something is going to be done
about this, it will never reach a wider usage in the Open Source
community.
 
> 
> (1) My laptop dual boots XP (with ObjectAda Special Ed.) and OpenBSD
> (GNAT).
> (2) http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-ports&m=117679065130354&w=2
> (3) http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-ports&m=119851255408925&w=2
> -- 
> Tero Koskinen - http://iki.fi/tero.koskinen/