Re: Current status of Ada development for an Android target ?

[jrmarino <dragonlace.cla@marino.st>]

On Tuesday, June 14, 2016 at 8:39:13 PM UTC+2, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2016-06-14, jrmarino wrote: 
> It's not just a one-off build of an existing package; I would need to
> duplicate my full existing development environment on FreeBSD as I
> would have to use FreeBSD to do the actual development as well.

Why?
What's stopping you from developing where you want and using SCP/FTP/rsync/whatever to transfer files to FreeBSD VM and compiling as needed?

I'm guessing it's not "would have" but rather "in order to avoid this transfer step which may have to be performed many times in a try-check-correct dev cycle, it would be easier to move to FreeBSD".

By the way, did you realize FreeBSD and DragonFly has the most current and extensive Ada support of all the FOSS platforms?  Developing Ada on one of those isn't a bad thing.

> Luke's observation about the general move to LLVM is also a good one
> and I wonder what that is going to mean in, say, a couple of years time.

pipe dream.  We've been talking about this for six years already.  I did some work on it but stopped when I realized the payoff vs work imbalance plus the real motivation for it (which was primarily license, not tech, at the time).  Don't want for this; it's not happening.

John