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,df77dab1cece2f70 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: jhopper@erinet.com (jim hopper) Subject: Re: GNAT/MachTen? Date: 1996/11/22 Message-ID: <574jht$cks@news.syspac.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 198088712 sender: full@news.syspac.com. references: <5746kn$5dd@mailsrv2.erno.de> x-authenticated: full on INN-RP host news.syspac.com. organization: Systems Solutions Inc. (Arizona's Internet Provider) newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1996-11-22T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <5746kn$5dd@mailsrv2.erno.de> Thomas.Kendelbacher@erno.de (Thomas Kendelbacher) writes: > Subject says it all: What is the current status? > Any news from the GNAT-Mac project? > (http://gnat-mac.com/macada unreachable?) I don't know why its down, its been reported for a week or more. Well the technical team is still hard at work however. We are close to having a release of gnat 3.07 for ppc with the new tenon fast file system software (a ppc native file system which speeds the compiler up by a factor of 4 or more). We now have tasking in standalone MacOS apps running as well thanks to some great work by the folks at Tenon, and a lot of help from the ACT folks (Thanks Cyrille). The new tenon CD with the entire ball of wax (including full source) will be shown at tri-ada in the ACT booth. We have done a great deal of work to make this as nice as possible. it now builds either unix or mac apps (as well as hybrid unix apps with macOS interface) completely transparently. no fuss no muss! As you can tell i am kind of proud of it ;-) Mike Feldman, Art Evans have new html documentation set that includes new mac specific docs as well as gnu tools which are really nice. John Matthews has a new and improved MacOS binding thats coveres even more of the mac toolbox. Mike, Art, John, and I have collabarated on some really nice examples both plain ada95 and a set of mac Apps with documentation. We have also worked with a few vendors of mac freeware and shareware tools to include some macos tools which work well with gnat-mac. forexample macperl which allows you to use Tom Quiggles really nice little perl pretty printer as a bbedit extension so you can pretty print code inside bbedit, and a newly release mac application development framework in Ada by Marinus A. van der Lugt. There have been several people wanting a more "native" mac ada using codewarrior or mpw, well i can now talk about one reason that tenons solution is going to be supperior to this for some time to come. Tenon has announced their new ppc native fast file system that they use from machten in addition to mac hfs (you can mix and match). By using this with gnat the build process is 4 or more times faster than using mac file system. For example it taks 8 hours to compile (c ada, c++) and bootstrap, then build libs and tools using mac file system (which is emulated 68k code), however under Machtens new fast file system its less than 2 hours! best jim