Re: Distributed Computing in Ada

[abyhoe <abyhoe@gmail.com>]

On Aug 28, 4:34 pm, Ludovic Brenta <ludo...@ludovic-brenta.org> wrote:
> Adrian Hoe wrote on comp.lang.ada:
>
> > I remembered I played with florist many years ago.Its website
> > (http://www.cs.fsu.edu/~baker/florist.html) indicates that the latest update
> > was in 2003. I still can find florist lib package at Ubuntu and
> > Debian.
>
> > If my memory serves me correct, there were a few distributed examples
> > (one of them was Sieve of Eratosthenes) that came with the florist
> > package. Can someone please verify that?
>
> I think you are confusing FLORIST (an implementation of POSIX.5) with
> GLADE (GNAT Library for Ada Distributed Execution) which was in Debian
> 3.1 and 4.0 under the name "gnat-glade". GLADE does not work with
> gnat-4.3 and so we dropped it from Debian 5.0.
>
> > I am a little bit curious on this: Does Ada require PolyOrb etc to
> > support Annex E?
>
> PolyORB is the successor to GLADE, so the answer is yes.
>
> --
> Ludovic Brenta.


Ludovic,

Thanks. You refreshed my memory. Yes, I remember now, I used FLORIST
for some RS-232 communication on Solaris and SuSE Linux.

Yes, that's GLADE.

--
Adrian Hoe
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