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From: "Weston T. Pan" <westonpa@usc.edu>
Subject: Re: Popularizing Ada
Date: 1999/06/18
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Rob Veenker wrote:
> 
> I always wondered why Ada is not present on the many Linux distributions.
> (At least I couldn't find them)
> Most of the GNU-ware is present; why not Ada ? (GNAT)
> Maybe its too obvious ?

Well, this is the response I got from the author of Slackware :

[Begin quote]

Well, I've included gnat in the past, but don't think I'll consider it
again unless it's merged as part of the egcs project.  It ended up being
quite a headache, since gnat releases could take quite a while to come
out
after a new gcc release, and it was just a bit too much to deal with as
a
set of outside patches.  Hopefully they'll get together with the egcs
project.  If that's not possible, I'd also consider including it if it
could be reworked as a compiler with it's own backend, and didn't
require
modifying the C compiler;  but, I don't see that happening soon.

Best regards,

Pat

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--Weston Pan