* Re: New version of GWADA??
1996-03-27 0:00 New version of GWADA?? Adam Oliver
@ 1996-03-27 0:00 ` Michael Feldman
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From: Michael Feldman @ 1996-03-27 0:00 UTC (permalink / raw)
In article <4jamrm$bsi@brumby.cowan.edu.au>,
Adam Oliver <st962e5c@echidna.cowan.edu.au> wrote:
>Anyone know of a new version of GWAda?? I have the 93 version which is
>what we use at Uni, but it has some problems. If anyone knows where I
>can get it please reply or email me at
>st962e5c@echidna.cowan.edu.au
>
There is no newer version of GW-Ada/Ed, at least for DOS. There have been
some maintenance/speedup updates to the Mac version. We do not expect to
do any more work on either version, certainly nothing of significance.
It served its purpose well, as a freely available, easy to use Ada 83
educational system, but it's really overtaken by events.
We've turned all our efforts to working on and around GNAT stuff.
Attached is an announcement of "ez2load", which packages GNAT for DOS
with a couple of nice editors and other tools.
Mike Feldman
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Fourth Release of GW ez2load Ada Compiler and Tutorial Kit for MS-DOS
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January 15, 1996
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Michael B. Feldman (mfeldman@seas.gwu.edu)
Charles A. Kann (ckann@seas.gwu.edu)
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
The George Washington University Washington, DC 20052
(202) 994-5919 (voice)
(202) 994-0227 (fax)
We are happy to announce the fourth release of ez2load, an easy-install
kit of free Ada 83 and Ada 95 compilers and editors, and a shareware
tutorial for Ada 95.
This kit is intended primarily for distribution on the February release
of the Walnut Creek Ada CD-ROM, but it is equally useful
as an ftp or diskette distribution.
New in this release:
-------------------
- GNAT version 3.01 for MS-DOS is now included. This is the released
DOS version of the compiler that was validated for SGI in November.
Since the base compiler is the same, all of Ada 95 is now
supported and passed the relevant validation tests. The zipfiles
now match the "official" distribution.
There is unfortunately still no tasking under DOS. The compiler will
compile a tasking program correctly, so you can do syntax/semantic
checking on DOS, but you cannot link the program because the needed
runtime libraries are missing. For GNAT with tasking on the
Intel platform, get GNAT for OS/2 or Windows NT or Linux.
The various GNAT ports are at cs.nyu.edu.
- Improved and extended versions of the AdaCAPS (DOS) and AdaIDE
(Windows 3.1) editor/development environments.
- The GW-GNAT editor is gone. We are no longer supporting it,
because it is completely superceded by AdaCAPS and AdaIDE, which
are much better environments.
- A new utility which, given a compilable package interface, will
produce a skeletal, compilable package body, with syntactically
valid skeletal subprogram bodies. This is called makebody and
runs as a tool under AdaCAPS.
- A binding to the DJGPP version of PD Curses, with a higher-level
package called AdaTUI, Ada Textual User Interface. PD Curses is
included in the distribution.
- A new release of DRGEN, from Allen Parrish and David Cordes of
the University of Alabama. Given a compiled package, DRGEN will
produce an interactive test harness for unit-testing the package.
- A new release of David Wheeler's Lovelace, a free Ada 95 tutorial
in Hypertext Markup Language (HTML). A copy of the Cello HTML
browser for Windows is included.
- A new release of John Herro's shareware Ada-Tutr. If you plan to
keep it to learn Ada 95, please send him the shareware fee.
- If you need only the new editors, download editors.zip _and_ the .exe
and .scr files. If you need only DRGEN, download misc.zip.
You do not need the other zipfiles.
- The file winhelp.zip contains a set of Windows Help files created by
the AdaIDE authors for several of the DJGPP tools. These are not
essential to using AdaIDE or GNAT; download this file if you wish.
ez2load is available by anonymous ftp at ftp.gwu.edu, pub/ada/ez2load,
and also in the Public Ada LIbrary at wuarchive.wustl.edu (and numerous
mirror sites), languages/ada/compiler/ez2load.
Included in the ez2load kit are:
-------------------------------
- a menu-driven installer program
- GW-Ada/Ed, an integrated Ada 83 environment that provides an excellent
way to get started with Ada. This system incorporates an editor,
compiler and virtual-code interpreter, and a very useful multi-window
runtime monitor. Several directories of interesting example programs
are provided, including some nice programs to demonstrate Ada's
multitasking capabilities. Based on NYU's Ada/Ed compiler,
GW-Ada/Ed was developed by Charles Kann, GW doctoral student,
and Arthur Vargas Lopes, a GW graduate now of Porto Alegre, Brazil.
- GNAT (GNU/NYU Ada Translator) for DOS, an Ada 95 compiler that runs
under djgpp (GCC for DOS) and provides a nearly-complete implementation
of Ada 95. (Tasking is not yet supported in the DOS version of GNAT.)
A basic djgpp distribution is included in the kit and installed along
with GNAT. GNAT is a product of a team at New York University and
elsewhere, and is now maintained by Ada Core Technologies (ACT).
Report compiler bugs to them, report@gnat.com.
- AdaCAPS (Ada Computer-Aided Programming System), an interactive development
environment for GNAT. The editor provides full support for multiple
re-sizable windows (overlaid or tiled), mouse and keystroke interactions,
and single-keystroke invocation of GNAT compilation, binding, and execution
commands. Ken Price of Priceless Software, Perpperell, Mass, is the
author of this very nice IDE, which has the "look-and-feel" of a
Borland "Turbo" product.
- AdaIDE (Ada Interactive Development Environment), an IDE that runs
under Microsoft Windows 3.1, with the "look-and-feel" of a Microsoft
"Visual" product. Errol Martin and Don Overheu of Canberra,
Australia, are the authors of this IDE.
- a set of simple DOS command-line commands, gcompile/glink/gexecute,
which allow new GNAT users to do simple compilation and linking
operations, and to execute programs in an environment that produces
a neatly-formatted traceback in case of an unhandled exception.
These commands are invoked by GW-GNAT and AdaCAPS but can also be run
from the DOS command line. Charles Kann is the author.
- AdaTUI, Ada Textual User Interface, a binding to PD Curses
and a demonstration textual user interface builder package.
The author is Alden Dima of GWU.
- a fast hypertext Ada 95 Reference Manual. The hypertext RM can be invoked
from GW-GNAT, AdaCAPS and AdaIDE or used as a stand-alone program. The
author is Arthur Vargas Lopes.
- DRGEN - a tool which allows programmers to easily generate driver programs
for unit testing Ada packages. This tool was written by Allan Parrish and
David Cortes.
- Lovelace - A hypertext Ada 95 tutorial by David Wheeler. It includes
the Cello web browser.
- Ada-Tutor - a shareware package by John Herro, providing computer-aided
instruction in Ada 95. This is an excellent package for those wishing
to teach themselves Ada 95.
All components are free except for Ada-Tutor, which carries a shareware
fee if you decide to keep it and use it.
Acquiring ez2load by anonymous ftp:
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The ez2load suite is available from ftp.gwu.edu in the directory
pub/ada/ez2load, and also from the Public Ada Library (wuarchive.wustl.edu)
and its mirrors, in the directory languages/ada/compiler/ez2load.
Here are all the files to copy from the ftp directory:
README - This readme file
ginstall.exe - Program to do the install from a hard disk.
dinstall.exe - Program to do the install if you use diskettes.
install.scr - This script files gives options to the install program.
unzip.exe - unzip, used to unzip distribution files.
README.DSK - A readme file to explain how to use this distribution
to make a diskette distribution.
adaed1.zip
adaed2.zip - Zip files containing GW-Ada/Ed.
adatutor.zip - Zip file containing adatutor.
gnat3011.zip
gnat3012.zip
gnat3013.zip
dj112m4.zip - Zip files containing djgpp and GNAT
editors.zip - separate package containing just AdaIDE and
AdaCAPS, no compiler.
misc.zip - separate zipfile containing DRGEN and a few
additional demos.
winhelp.zip - separate zipfile containing Windows Help for
several DJGPP tools.
adatui.zip - separate zipfile containing just AdaTUI.
Download the first six files, and any or all of the zip files, into
a "clean" single directory of your choosing, then change to that
directory and type "ginstall".
The complete distribution occupies about 8.5 megabytes; the unpacked
and installed distribution requires about 15 megabytes. You need an
MS-DOS computer with an 80386 or better CPU; 4 megabytes minimum RAM,
8 mb preferred.
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