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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,c62a5e526aafd9d4 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-09-21 02:31:01 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!skynet.be!skynet.be!dispose.news.demon.net!news.demon.co.uk!demon!pipehawk.demon.co.uk!not-for-mail From: john.mccabe@emrad.com.nospam (John McCabe) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Windows CE? Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2001 09:30:31 GMT Organization: Emrad Ltd Message-ID: <3bab04cd.4954954@news.demon.co.uk> References: <3ba873c7.9907836@news.demon.co.uk> <5ee5b646.0109200656.62a7bb3e@posting.google.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: pipehawk.demon.co.uk X-NNTP-Posting-Host: pipehawk.demon.co.uk:158.152.226.81 X-Trace: news.demon.co.uk 1001064658 nnrp-10:117 NO-IDENT pipehawk.demon.co.uk:158.152.226.81 X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.21/32.243 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:13226 Date: 2001-09-21T09:30:31+00:00 List-Id: On 20 Sep 2001 07:56:55 -0700, dewar@gnat.com (Robert Dewar) wrote: Robert >I would suggest that if you are seriously interested in >a commercial product in this area, you contact the relevant >vendor sales offices (for GNAT that is sales@gnat.com). I am now working for a company that uses C++. We're developing a Windows CE based product, but the target is actually a CEPC. I'm convinced Ada would be a good (probably the best) language to use for our application, but without being able to demonstrate how it can be of advantage to us to use Ada (e.g. through an evaluation or public version of Ada for Windows CE that can be run on the target), my management will (reasonably IMO) not be interested. In particular we have just shelled out on M$ Platform Builder and eMbedded Visual C++, so there certainly won't be any money available to help fund the porting of GNAT to Windows CE. Our product is based on an embedded PC running Windows CE (CEPC). As far as I can tell M$'s intention in CE 3.0 is that the CEPC is available for development and debugging. However it sounds like additional support will be available in the next version of CE and I can see the CEPC becoming a common target in future. Given that Windows CE supports much of the Win32 API, plus some extra real-timey bits, perhaps it would not be that difficult, and worthwhile, to port GNAT NT to Win CE. Of course you can justify not doing so by saying there is no demand for such a product but this may be one of these cases where people don't even stop to consider that there may be an alternative to M$ eVC++ and eVB unless the alternative is very visible.