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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,15ce5e046cd0b91d X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-07-05 14:41:46 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail From: dewar@gnat.com (Robert Dewar) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: ADA for OS/2 Date: 5 Jul 2001 14:41:46 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com/ Message-ID: <5ee5b646.0107051341.2a0d4b42@posting.google.com> References: <3B417021.A68938D2@eyup.org> <3B41A4C7.E819C1E3@eyup.org> <20010704114900.48bc8b38.McCratch@gmx.net> <3B431D22.C20FF8BD@eyup.org> <0fqDUcnQj8JQ@eisner.encompasserve.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: 205.232.38.14 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 994369306 23987 127.0.0.1 (5 Jul 2001 21:41:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-support@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 5 Jul 2001 21:41:46 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:9500 Date: 2001-07-05T21:41:46+00:00 List-Id: Kilgallen@eisner.decus.org.nospam (Larry Kilgallen) wrote in message news:<0fqDUcnQj8JQ@eisner.encompasserve.org>... > In general, that is true, but in the case of GNAT it seems that ACT > is only releasing binaries for certain platforms these days, which > means installation from source becomes more commonplace and is not > at all based on expertise (especially in view of ACT's statement > that they feel the public releases should be for student use). Most people will not be able to install GNAT from sources, since it does indeed assume GCC expertise. It is definitely true that ACT is not building public binaries for most platforms these days (our current intention is to build binaries for GNU/Linux/x86 and for NT). We expect that other public binaries wlil be built, distributed and mirrored, by those who do know how, as happens for other GNU software.