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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,e60fe41dcabc5f5d X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: tojst1+@pitt.edu (Tore Joergensen) Subject: Re: GNAT 3.03 for OS/2 Date: 1996/03/26 Message-ID: <4j9q8e$fgb@usenet.srv.cis.pitt.edu>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 144389692 distribution: world references: <4iufbc$cj9@twonky.btv.ibm.com> <4j6756$knt@twonky.btv.ibm.com> <4j8t6p$ae2@usenet.srv.cis.pitt.edu> <4j948j$jk7@twonky.btv.ibm.com> organization: University of Pittsburgh newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1996-03-26T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Dale Pontius (pontius@twonky.btv.ibm.com) wrote: : Therefore, if folks are really interested in OS/2 GNAT, we should get : either Paying Customers, or someone willing to assist with the OS/2 : porting effort. Some of the GNAT ports are currently maintained by : volunteers, so there is precedent for this. If there aren't any military projects or something like that made on OS/2, I think it will be difficult to find people that will pay $1200 each year for support. I'm sure the support is fast and good, but at least I can't afford to use that kind of money on a programming language. Professional programmers that make general purpose programs are likely to choose another language, since there aren't many nice libraries for GNAT on OS/2. Sure Ada and GNAT are nice, but I think most people that make programs for the non-critical market will prioritize simple GUI and database connections, rather than the strong typing in Ada. If there was a low-price alternative for non-professional programmers ($50 - 100), it would be possible to get some paying customers. The priority for these customers would of course be somewhere between non-paying and full-paying customers. It's just that I think that even with a low price like this, it would be difficult to get more than 10-30 customers. That wouldn't be enough to make OS/2 ports a high priority, but maybe it is enough together with Dewar's interest in OS/2 to keep the OS/2 ports coming? It would be nice if somebody volunteered to do the OS/2 ports, but I think that that job require some knowledge about GNAT, gcc and emx. I know that I don't have the time to do something like that for the moment (partly because I would have to spend time to get that knowledge), and I doubt that I will get time to do it in the future (of course it is a question about prioritzing). If anybody have a good idea about how to ensure continued efforts to keep the OS/2 ports coming, speak out! : As for myself, I've found no problems so far with GNAT. I haven't found any problems with the last version either, but it would be nice with a version that does some more optimizing. :-) : Also, Three Cheers to Mr. Dewar for keeping us running so far! \ \ \ \___ \___ \___ / | \ / | \ / | \ / | \ / | \ / | \ ...what... cheers... oh... I thought you said chairs... well, three cheers for Dewar!!! :-) -- +-------------------------+-------------------------------------------+ | Tore B. Joergensen | e-mail : tore@lis.pitt.edu | | Centre Court Villa | web : http://www.pitt.edu/~tojst1 | | 5535 Centre Avenue # 6 | | | Pgh, PA 15232, USA | Norwegian MSIS-student at Univ. of Pgh. | +-------------------------+-------------------------------------------+