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-Thread: 103376,487005686b5873fe X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!feeder.news-service.com!newsfeed.freenet.de!feeder2.ecngs.de!ecngs!feeder.ecngs.de!130.59.10.21.MISMATCH!kanaga.switch.ch!news-zh.switch.ch!switch.ch!news.ip-plus.net!newsfeed.ip-plus.net!news.post.ch!not-for-mail From: Martin Krischik Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada on Mac Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2008 07:58:06 +0200 Organization: Swisscom IP+ (post doesn't reflect views of Swisscom) Message-ID: <48e1bfee$1@news.post.ch> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: 194.41.146.1 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: atlas.ip-plus.net 1222754291 7818 194.41.146.1 (30 Sep 2008 05:58:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@ip-plus.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2008 05:58:11 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (Windows/20080914) In-Reply-To: X-Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: w03duo.pnet.ch X-Original-Trace: 30 Sep 2008 07:58:06 +0200, w03duo.pnet.ch Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:2151 Date: 2008-09-30T07:58:06+02:00 List-Id: 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 -- mailto://krischik@users.sourceforge.net Ada programming at: http://ada.krischik.com