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From: lga@unconfigured.xvnews.domain (Laurent Gasser)
Subject: Re: Ada and Mac (Was: New version of AppletMagic)
Date: 1996/10/09
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In article <53dnlp$bq7@news.syspac.com>, jhopper@erinet.com (jim hopper) writes:
> > Good news: 
> > 
> > * GNAT has been ported to Mac (Thank you) but requires MachTen.
> > 
> > * GCC 2.7.2 for MPW is progressing.  I recently received a mail from 
> > Stan Shebs <shebs@cygnus.com> on gnu-mac@cygnus.com telling us that
> > a pre-release version could be found on ftp Cygnus site. 
> > 
> 
> I am working slowly on moving gnat to this, but its not as trivial as
> you may think.
> 
> [sound technical reasons deleted] 
> jim

I would like to clarify my previous postings. 

Having a GNAT delivering PowerMac stand-alone applications is what counts.  To me 
and certainly to a couple of others.  

That tasking requires a lot of extension is no surprise.  This lack of MacOS has 
been often pointed to.

All in all, GNAT hosted in MPW may well never be done.

I am willing to contribute and pay for further devlopments of GNAT though.
But today, the offer looks strange:

  You can download GNAT (essentially at null cost)
  to make it run in a shell (which costs $700).
  
Compare this with commercial offers of compilers: Metrowerks offers for $400
a subscription for three releases to C/C++, Pascal, Java for Mac 68K and PPC, 
and Windows, with CodeWarrior IDE and MPW.

That's why I am waiting for a "stripped down" MachTen environment.  The product
MachTen as it is now deserve its price.  The usage I plan to make of it 
(programming shell for GNAT) does not.
-- 
Laurent Gasser (lga@sma.ch)
Computers do not solve problems, they execute solutions.