Re: Distributed Computing in Ada

[Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>]

Adrian Hoe wrote on comp.lang.ada:
> I remembered I played with florist many years ago.Its website
> (http://www.cs.fsu.edu/~baker/florist.html) indicates that the latest update
> was in 2003. I still can find florist lib package at Ubuntu and
> Debian.
>
> If my memory serves me correct, there were a few distributed examples
> (one of them was Sieve of Eratosthenes) that came with the florist
> package. Can someone please verify that?

I think you are confusing FLORIST (an implementation of POSIX.5) with
GLADE (GNAT Library for Ada Distributed Execution) which was in Debian
3.1 and 4.0 under the name "gnat-glade". GLADE does not work with
gnat-4.3 and so we dropped it from Debian 5.0.

> I am a little bit curious on this: Does Ada require PolyOrb etc to
> support Annex E?

PolyORB is the successor to GLADE, so the answer is yes.

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Ludovic Brenta.