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: 103376,9960fa51a4a478af X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-02-03 06:18:27 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail From: dewar@gnat.com (Robert Dewar) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: ACT announces availability of GNAT 3.14p Date: 3 Feb 2002 06:18:27 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com/ Message-ID: <5ee5b646.0202030618.380d47f7@posting.google.com> References: <5ee5b646.0201301849.4e951bcb@posting.google.com> <3C5CEFCE.D41ABFFF@eliminatespam.notes.udayton.edu> <3c5d136a.741292@news.cis.dfn.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: 205.232.38.244 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1012745907 27797 127.0.0.1 (3 Feb 2002 14:18:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 3 Feb 2002 14:18:27 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:19561 Date: 2002-02-03T14:18:27+00:00 List-Id: dmitry@elros.cbb-automation.de (Dmitry A. Kazakov) wrote in message news:<3c5d136a.741292@news.cis.dfn.de>... > On Sun, 03 Feb 2002 03:07:42 -0500, Leon Winslow > wrote: > Yet XP is far less stable [if this word can be applied to > Microsoft products] than NT. Actually our experience so far is that, at least as a GNAT Pro development environment, XP is more stable than NT (I am in the process of switching my own development from OS/2 to XP now, since unfortunately our tools have not continued to be developed for OS/2, so it is time to say goodbye to the only *really* stable system for the PC that I met so far :-) > So IMO ACT does it well. I believe there should be no big > problems with using GNAT under XP. GNAT Pro version 3.15 works just fine under XP, and we consider XP to be a fully supported target. It may be the case that 3.14p works fine on XP, we just don't know since we have never tried, so we don't like to make guesses. One person at ACT tried it briefly and it seemed to work, but that's as far as we have gone. This is just a matter of timing, XP was not around when 3.14 was being developed, but XP is reasonably compatible with NT in practice. > What I would wish, is GNAT for Win CE, but I > also understand the reasons why ACT does not support it. The reason is pretty simple, we never had a potential customer seriously interested in this target (it is not a hard port to do, and I guess the fact that no volunteer did it yet means there is not much interest in the hobbyist arena for this port either). Certainly there are many systems for which GNAT could easily be ported if there is interest (we just heard that the port Jim Hopper is doing for Mac OS/X is coming along very nicely), and some interesting new ports of GNAT Pro will be appearing soon from Ada Core Technologies. Robert Dewar Ada Core Technologies