Calling Gentoo Ada-er's

Calling Gentoo Ada-er's

[Luke A. Guest]

Hi

I'm wanting to start thinking about revamping Gentoo's Ada support. So I'm
wondering what the user', if any, would want. 

I personally want to bring it up to date and have an ada USE flag which can
be used from system install such that Ada is a first class citizen rather
than the ugly ginger step-child it currently is.

This means the whole current way of doing things will need to change. I've
just never liked the way distributions have a whole other set of compilers
just for Ada, so there ends up being two tool chains, so two c compilers,
two c++ compilers, one Ada compiler.

What do people want?

Luke

Re: Calling Gentoo Ada-er's

[Rod Kay]

Hi Luke,

   I've been trying to update Ada support for ArchLinux for much the same reasons.

   Here are the Ada packages/tools I've been using ...

   - ada-web-server   
   - ahven            
   - asis             
   - florist          
   - gnat-gps         
   - gnat_util        
   - gprbuild         
   - gtkada           
   - polyorb          
   - xmlada

   I expect QtAda might also be popular.

   Good luck with your Gentoo efforts.


Cheers.

Re: Calling Gentoo Ada-er's

[Luke A. Guest]

Rod Kay <rodakay@internode.on.net> wrote:
> Hi Luke,
> 
>    I've been trying to update Ada support for ArchLinux for much the same reasons.
> 
>    Here are the Ada packages/tools I've been using ...
> 
>    - ada-web-server   
>    - ahven            
>    - asis             
>    - florist          
>    - gnat-gps         
>    - gnat_util        
>    - gprbuild         
>    - gtkada           
>    - polyorb          
>    - xmlada
> 
>    I expect QtAda might also be popular.
> 
>    Good luck with your Gentoo efforts.
> 
> 
> Cheers.

Yeah, I've already done this in my free-ada scripts. The gnat_util and
other AdaCore tools are the worst and most inconsistent to build.

Cheers.

Luke