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,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,80eb73f0b0257a79 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!news.glorb.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: "Alex R. Mosteo" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Recompiling? Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 15:23:06 +0200 Message-ID: <43145DBA.3060308@mailinator.com> References: <1125324015.247179.276030@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <1125329216.771128.216930@g49g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <1125406711.923201.84470@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net fggRcZlkCyl8JEODV6YjhAOpCglGgoJ1Bf6isyg4up5Q5gZYI= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20050716) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: <1125406711.923201.84470@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com> Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:4324 Date: 2005-08-30T15:23:06+02:00 List-Id: Ludovic Brenta wrote: > You can help out in several ways: > > 1) Try to persuade AdaCore to release a new "p" version of GNAT, based > on a recent GCC, with ASIS and GLADE. This would trigger a change > in compilers in Debian (see section 2.8 of the Debian Policy for > Ada). I think this may be inminent, being really a repackaging of the GAP releases. I remember that R. Dewar said in some other list that there's really no problem in people outside academic circles getting the GAP release. I've been looking for the exact post but I don't remember the mailing list and have not found it. If someone can point to it this would become clear and not a remembrance of mine (which may be imperfect :)