Re: Ada to Boldly Go... (Was: Status of Ada??)

[William Starner <billeug@worldnet.att.net>]

Larry Kilgallen wrote:
> 
> In article <915qs9$aai1@news.cis.okstate.edu>, dvdeug@x8b4e516e.dhcp.okstate.edu (David Starner) writes:
> > On Tue, 12 Dec 2000 00:03:05 -0600, Bobby D. Bryant wrote:
> >>> 4. More Linux/FreeBSD distributions will start including Ada95 as a ready
> >>>     to go option (or included as a standard offering).
> >>
> >>I notice at
> >>ftp://linux.inrialpes.fr/linux/redhat/redhat-7.0/powertools/i386/RedHat/RPMS/
> >>that both GNAT and GtkAda are already included on Red Hat's "Powertools" CD for
> >>v. 7.0.
> >
> > It's also been included in Debian for years.
> 
> I thought it was only in the Debian Intel x86 release.
> Supposedly Debian also runs on:
> 
>                 Alpha
>                 ARM
>                 Motorola 680x0
>                 PowerPC
>                 SPARC

And some other unreleased stuff (Hurd/i386, PA-RISC, etc.), yes. 

GNAT is included in Debian in every architecture that it has been ported to -
i.e. we currently support i386, SPARC, and PowerPC(?). The GNAT maintainer is in
fact working from a SPARC machine. One of the Alpha guys has volunteered to port
GNAT to Alpha/Linux when he gets boxes running DEC Alpha in Janurary. We're more
than willing to include GNAT on any architecture that it will build on.

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David Starner - dvdeug@hushmail.com (dstarner98@aasaa.ofe.org off vacation)