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=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,ddccebfb25095581 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!proxad.net!213.200.89.82.MISMATCH!tiscali!newsfeed1.ip.tiscali.net!feed.news.tiscali.de!newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de!newsmm00.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!news.t-online.com!not-for-mail From: Martin Krischik Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: What is the best source of GNAT for Win32? Date: Sun, 26 Dec 2004 19:20:44 +0100 Organization: None Message-ID: <2267527.9HDeXFcgkv@linux1.krischik.com> References: Reply-To: martin@krischik.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Trace: news.t-online.com 1104088160 05 8683 QEcSrhM6fNeju2s 041226 19:09:20 X-Complaints-To: usenet-abuse@t-online.de X-ID: bo3R6YZa8er9Jj-ekxRJTcE2Gyp1WnVBUxzNCgQCkVUxTnNE1s236k User-Agent: KNode/0.8.0 Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:7216 Date: 2004-12-26T19:20:44+01:00 List-Id: Robert C. Leif wrote: > Since GNAT has become the dominant Ada compiler and AdaCore does not > appear to be providing binary distributions, a new source for a binary > distribution including a simple install needs to be created. Good idea. Compiling Windows versions arn't that easy. > One other > possibility would be to provide a binary distribution of A# that was > independent of GNAT. > This distribution of an Ada compiler should include a development > environment. This could be a functioning version of the AdaCore's GPS or > integration with Microsoft's Visual Studio. GPS is probably better. > Does the available public > version of GPS have a functioning pretty printer? No, Pretty Printer is a part of the ASIS tools (GNAT ASIS contains not only the ASIS lib itself but also some tools) and there is no cvs for ASIS yet. So unless you know a supported customer who is willing to copy it, it's bad look. > In order to serve as > the basis of an Ada environment, AdaGide needs a browse or point and click > means for inclusion of the paths to packages. > It would be appropriate to charge a reasonable fee for providing a > binary > distribution of a complete development environment that includes a > complete Ada compiler. --enable-languages=c,ada and --enable-languages=c,ada,c++,f77,java,objc is not that much difference. And GPS supports C and C++ as well. No reason to restrict yourself to Ada only. > A reasonable range for this fee would be 25 to 100 > dollars. For the complete tool chain, yes. I always thougt about that - especialy for windows where the compile is very tricky. If you inedeed plan that: why not thow in a Linux distribution as well. Much easier to compile and extends the list of pontential customers significantly. I for one would be very interested at a symetric Windows/Linux GCC tool chain. With Regards Martin -- mailto://krischik@users.sourceforge.net http://www.ada.krischik.com