Re: ADA for OS/2

[dewar@gnat.com (Robert Dewar)]

dwparsons@t-online.de (Dave Parsons) wrote in message news:<Ej0w7lFo08Zw-pn2-uCtRxTNVD6K6@jupiter.dwparsons.dialin.t-online.de>...
> True, but since the OS/2 code is still in the baseline presumably it 
> is tested and the results of the tests would include an OS/2 binary
> which would in turn have to be tested.
> If that is true, why not release it, or is the OS/2 code not tested
> anymore?

ACT no longer supports the OS/2 version of GNAT, since there was
insufficient commercial demand (we had one customer, who is in the
process of switching to windows).

> If it is not tested, what does that mean for the quality of any 
> private builds?

Probably they should be in fairly reasonable shape, since I still
build on OS/2 for development purposes, though we don't do any
formal testing of the OS/2 version at this stage.


> As an aside, it seems that my other preferred OS, OpenVMS, is 
> suffering the same fate.

The OpenVMS version of GNAT Professional is fully supported, and we
have a number of supported customers for this platform. We are not
planning on releasing public binaries, since this is no longer a
platform that is of interest for student use.

> All that I could find on ftp://cs.nyu.edu was 3.11p and 3.12p. 
> BTW, do they just mirror ACT or do they produce their own binaries?

cs.nyu.edu has binaries of the public versions, some are built by ACT,
others are built by other volunteers.