Re: MachTen Lite -- where is it?

[mfeldman@seas.gwu.edu (Michael Feldman)]

In article <1997Jan7.064501.1@eisner>,
Larry Kilgallen <kilgallen@eisner.decus.org> wrote:

>Press announcements regarding the MacWorld Exposition which starts today
>in San Francisco indicate the Tenon package will be "announced" there,
>although that could mean just the same flyers in Developer Central
>(the place to go at MacWorld for such things) that were in Philadelphia.

I believe Tenon is actually selling CDs at MacWorld. I know they were 
in production.
>
>I sent in the $99 but have not received it yet.  In the meantime
>I discovered I also have a need for the full Power MachTen, so
>I ordered that from Apple last week.
                     ^^^^^ Tenon?
>
>Larry Kilgallen

I'd suggest you send e-mail to info@tenon.com. As far as I know, they're
shipping. The product is called MachTen Code Builder. I've been running
the beta CD quite heavily, and it's a nice piece of work. You get a
quite nice Unix, plus a number of GNU compilers, including C, C++,
Objective C, Fortran, and (of course) GNAT 3.07. The Ada example folder 
has some pretty decent code samples we wrote to demo how Ada 95 can
live in peace and harmony with the Mac toolbox, including some stuff
that combines Ada tasking and Mac event handling. It works, and ended
up a pretty decent program (I wrote it.:-)).

Anyone who's been following the Apple world knows they just bought
Next. Real Soon Now the Next software will be ported over to the Mac;
Tenon actually has built a fair amount of the GNU "clone" already,
and (I think) is demo-ing it at MacWorld. They may even have slipped
it onto the CD; I'm not sure.

So it turns out that while Metrowerks is promising a compiler
RSN that will do Next-ish things, CodeBuilder is there already.

Someone ought to do some GNAT bindings to the Next-ish API.:-)

Mike Feldman