Re: GNAT at FreeBSD -- Question about available versions ...

[Craig Carey <research@ijs.co.nz>]

On Fri, 02 Jun 2006 19:13:42 +0200, Karel Miklav wrote:
>M E Leypold wrote:
>> BTW: I remember that 3.15p has been in earlier FreeBSD-Release. But
>> when I looked into Release 6.x I only found gnat-2005 (ACT GPL GNAT, I
>> think). 

I The FreeBSD project seems to be malfunctioning and headed into
possible popularity, but which seems irrelevant.

The Dragonfly BSD project seems to be a more fitting target for
comp.lang.ada.

It does not matter whether the FreeBSD Ada "Port" is usable or not if
the incopatibility with the persons at FreeBSD is too much.

...
>There are no direct technical problems just a lack of manpower.

The FreeBSD Foundation now needs much more cash, and needs to ferry
SD-people to meetings/conferences, and professes to find Sun
Microsystems Java to very important deb Goodman and the chiefs:

  http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/downloads/java.shtml

I cna't decided if it is more consistent with FreeBSD being grabbed
by IBM when they get around to it, than by Sun, or reverse.

> Maybe you can help - try to download and play with my port than share
>your experience (beware, it doesn't deinstall).

(Merely delete directories to uninstall; unless deleting the whole OS).
Dragonfly has the primitive OpenBSD DOS partition set up, and it can't
read UFS2 filesystems. Dragonfly uses the NetBSD port system now; and
it seems to be a plausible direction to remove the FreeBSD Ports.
The designer of Cvsup (Mr Polstra) is inside of the JavaBSD Foundation
(What is the "D" in "BSD". I wonder if IBM staff can remember what the
"D" is for?. It could be changed to "A"; an Ada OS).

I see that Vim 7 is bad with the "vim -o *" command.

++ Craig Carey