Re: ada 95 for windows 95

["Kevin J. Weise" <kweise@c3i-ccmail.sed.redstone.army.mil>]

wilson figueroa <wfigueroa@mosquito.com> wrote (with deletions):
>Hello all,
>
>I am attempting to install the Ada 95 (GNAT) compiler for Windows 95.
    . . .
>
>Are there any surprises which I should be aware of.
>

I should probably let this go since I don't use GNAT in Windon'ts 95; but I 
can't resist ...

I went to a locally-held "How to use GNAT" symposium, and watched the Win 95 
team fall flat on their, ur.., faces when bitten by the "Daylight Savings 
Time" bug.  In essence, the release of GNAT they had for Win 95 was prepared 
before DST, but was installed *after* DST.  Result:  *all* the predefined 
language environment standard libraries were reported to be obsolete and in 
need of recompilation when attempting to compile the first example program. 
 And if I remember correctly, the casual user *can't* recompile the standard 
libraries.  (I won't mention names, since these people are all otherwise 
well-respected members of the community.  And to their credit, they 
recognized the problem & had the fix to it.  Still, to have the standard 
libraries obsoleted because of DST??  Thanks, Microsnot...  I presume this 
will happen again in the fall, too.  But I digress.)  

Recommendation:  Check the date/time stamps of your distribution files.  
Read the FAQ & all other documentation (esp. for installation) that came 
with the release.  I presume an updated release has information on this 
"feature" (which is not the fault of GNAT!) AWA the fix for it.

>(too much to learn ... not enough hours in the day!)

I know, I really didn't have the time to respond to this (but did anyhow).
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