* gps vs gnat pro @ 2006-04-28 9:38 Ananth the Boss 2006-04-28 13:37 ` Marc A. Criley ` (2 more replies) 0 siblings, 3 replies; 6+ messages in thread From: Ananth the Boss @ 2006-04-28 9:38 UTC (permalink / raw) gps and adagide is available for free distribution. gnat pro having same features (infact some more additional features)is available for purchase.will the gps have library that will not be the latest since it is available for free. can we use gps for safety critical software dev or gnat pro purchase is required. can any body suggest where will gps fail or the point where gps will not be suitable. ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 6+ messages in thread
* Re: gps vs gnat pro 2006-04-28 9:38 gps vs gnat pro Ananth the Boss @ 2006-04-28 13:37 ` Marc A. Criley 2006-04-28 14:17 ` Ludovic Brenta 2006-04-28 16:27 ` Martin Krischik 2 siblings, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread From: Marc A. Criley @ 2006-04-28 13:37 UTC (permalink / raw) Ananth the Boss wrote: > gps and adagide is available for free distribution. gnat pro having > same features (infact some more additional features)is available for > purchase.will the gps have library that will not be the latest since it > is available for free. can we use gps for safety critical software dev > or gnat pro purchase is required. can any body suggest where will gps > fail or the point where gps will not be suitable. GPS, or GNAT Programming Studio, is an IDE (Integrated Development Environment). In other words, an integrated editing environment that has a number of well-integrated features and capabilities. GNAT Pro is an Ada Development Environment, and consists of a suite of tools, including compiler, utilities, libraries, _and_ GPS. GNAT Pro will be the best-integrated and functional of GNAT-based development environments, mainly because AdaCore is being paid to support and maintain it. For paying customers, AdaCore will also respond to any issues that do arise in your use of the product. Free distributions of GNAT-based development environments do not have this level of support, although there is conscientious and active support of various distributions by committed individuals. (AdaCore itself does also distribute GNAT GPL 2005 for Free Software development, but maintains it only on an "as time permits" basis.) The components in these other non-AdaCore distributions are somewhat at the mercy of AdaCore's release of public sources. So it is fairly likely that a free distribution will not have all of the latest and greatest sources. And while there's nothing to stop individuals from making their own source code updates, there's usually a reluctance to get out in front of AdaCore, as that runs the risk of forking the code base. For the development of truly safety critical software, one would be ill-advised to attempt to go it alone with an unsupported development environment. Given that the costs of development, integration, testing, and certification of a safety critical system are going to far outweigh the cost of the development tools, it would be foolish to attempt to save a few thousand dollars by working without vendor support. -- Marc A. Criley -- McKae Technologies -- www.mckae.com -- DTraq - XPath In Ada - XML EZ Out ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 6+ messages in thread
* Re: gps vs gnat pro 2006-04-28 9:38 gps vs gnat pro Ananth the Boss 2006-04-28 13:37 ` Marc A. Criley @ 2006-04-28 14:17 ` Ludovic Brenta 2006-04-28 16:15 ` Ananth the Boss 2006-04-28 16:27 ` Martin Krischik 2 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread From: Ludovic Brenta @ 2006-04-28 14:17 UTC (permalink / raw) To complement Marc's answer, read the recent thread on this newsgroup titled: How available is 'freely available'? -- Ludovic Brenta. ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 6+ messages in thread
* Re: gps vs gnat pro 2006-04-28 14:17 ` Ludovic Brenta @ 2006-04-28 16:15 ` Ananth the Boss 0 siblings, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread From: Ananth the Boss @ 2006-04-28 16:15 UTC (permalink / raw) thanks people for ur suggestions ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 6+ messages in thread
* Re: gps vs gnat pro 2006-04-28 9:38 gps vs gnat pro Ananth the Boss 2006-04-28 13:37 ` Marc A. Criley 2006-04-28 14:17 ` Ludovic Brenta @ 2006-04-28 16:27 ` Martin Krischik 2006-04-28 17:18 ` Georg Bauhaus 2 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread From: Martin Krischik @ 2006-04-28 16:27 UTC (permalink / raw) Ananth the Boss wrote: > gps and adagide is available for free distribution. gnat pro having > same features (infact some more additional features)is available for > purchase.will the gps have library that will not be the latest since it > is available for free. can we use gps for safety critical software dev > or gnat pro purchase is required. can any body suggest where will gps > fail or the point where gps will not be suitable. You misread! It's: GNAT vs GNAT/Pro GPS vs GPS/Pro ASIS vs ASIS/Pro etc. pp. The Pro versions are supported by AdaCore. As for the difference: All professional questions I send to AdaCore using my employers Pro account got answered the same day. Questions and Bugreports I for my private home projects did not get the same level of attention from AdaCore - to put it nicely. If human live are at stake from the software you are planning to develop then you should get an GNAT/Pro account. Martin -- mailto://krischik@users.sourceforge.net Ada programming at: http://ada.krischik.com ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 6+ messages in thread
* Re: gps vs gnat pro 2006-04-28 16:27 ` Martin Krischik @ 2006-04-28 17:18 ` Georg Bauhaus 0 siblings, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread From: Georg Bauhaus @ 2006-04-28 17:18 UTC (permalink / raw) On Fri, 2006-04-28 at 18:27 +0200, Martin Krischik wrote: > If human live are at stake from the software you are planning to develop > then you should get an GNAT/Pro account. Or at least, get professional support for your selected Ada compilation system, which will either be from AdaCore, or from some one of the other Ada IDE makers. I understand you are busy talking to relevant suppliers of Ada tools? ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 6+ messages in thread
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