Re: Popularizing Ada

["Weston T. Pan" <westonpa@usc.edu>]

William Starner wrote:
> 
> Weston T. Pan wrote:
> >

[stuff about Debian and GNAT]

> >
> > 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.
> 
> Hmm. Does he include GNU Pascal? That compiles against EGCS but is still an

No. Slackware only provides a Pascal to C translator.

> independent package with its own release dates. Neither GPC or GNAT (with any
> available patches) compile against GCC 2.95 (release date July 1), unfortunetly.

;(


--Weston