Re: Ada on Mac

[Martin Krischik <krischik@users.sourceforge.net>]

Ludovic Brenta schrieb:
> Martin Krischik wrote:
>> Martin Dowie wrote:
>>> Finally jumped ship and got a Mac...what's the best, free (as in beer)
>>> Ada environment for Mac OS X?
>> Funny that you ask, I just created one:
>> http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=12974&package_id=291480
>> needs http://www.macports.org/ to be installed first.
>> But then there is also MacAda:
>> http://www.macada.org/
>> Which works with XCode.
> 
> The Wikibook page at http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Ada_Programming/Installing
> lists both macada and the GNU Ada project in separate sections (resp.
> 4.5.9 and 4.3 in the table of contents) but it doesn't list Max OS as
> supported in the GNU Ada project, nor does it explain the differences
> between the two. Could someone in the know please add the appropriate
> information for the benefit of all?

Well my hope was to upstream to MacPorts in which case an MacPorts
section would be needed - and then listing differences would be interesting.

Currently GNU Ada is just staging area for a MacPosts version.

However, my upstream patches where not received well:

https://trac.macports.org/ticket/16549

Plan B would be a fork either as a part of MacPorts or inside GNU Ada
Project.

> In particular I am curious how a hypothetical programmer wanting to
> program in Ada on their Macintosh would choose between the two. Are
> there differences in licensing? Integration with the rest of the
> system? Libraries included?

Once here truly is a MacPorts version the differences would be explained
in the line of integration: MacAda aims to integrate GNAT with the
existing Mac OS X development environment (read XCode) while MacPorts is
about integrating Mac OS X with the rest of the Unix world (read
"configure make install).

Regards

Martin

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