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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,8b6b07447ac07fd X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: dewar@gnat.com Subject: Re: ACT ANNOUNCES: GNAT 3.11p now available! Date: 1999/01/27 Message-ID: <78m3sj$3a8$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 437220198 References: <78ifi5$28v$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <78kk1d$a6u$1@remarQ.com> X-Http-Proxy: 1.0 x2.dejanews.com:80 (Squid/1.1.22) for client 205.232.38.14 Organization: Deja News - The Leader in Internet Discussion X-Article-Creation-Date: Wed Jan 27 04:15:21 1999 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/4.04 [en] (OS/2; I) Date: 1999-01-27T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <78kk1d$a6u$1@remarQ.com>, "news.oxy.com" wrote: > I hoped that GLADE would come with GNAT 3.11p as ready > and easy to use option of the GNAT 3.11p installation > package (at list for Windows NT users) that can be > installed as one of the available options during > installation. Instead it goes separately and you need to > mess up with additional Unix utilities to install it. I > think it is not very convenient for Windows NT > users and so it does not help to promote Ada. Well this is not a feature that our customers have required so far, and so it is unlikely we will do it in the near future. However, Vladimir, how about putting your energy into useful work instead of writing complaints. Nothing like fixing things yourself. If you can create a nicely packaged working binary release of GLADE for NT or other targets, we will be glad to put it in the contributors section at cs.nyu.edu! > Moreover, annex-E is part of the language definition and > as such it should go as one of the installation options. Now *that* is a (significant) misunderstanding of the RM. GNAT as provided *fully* implements annex E as far as the compiler requirements go. The RM requires that Ada compilers generate stubs using a standard interface that can then use a partition communication system for actual implementation of the communication. The intention is that the PCS be a quite separate product from the compiler, with plug-and-play compatibility. How well this concept works, we won't know till other compilers implement annex E, but even now, you can get a choice of PCS's that work with GNAT. We supply GLADE, which is incidentally a completely separate product from GNAT as far as we are concerned, But you can also try ADEPT, a PCS product that takes a quite different approach (and which is not an ACT product). The packaging of GNAT separate from GLADE is intended to encourage the production of other possible PCS's, and even other compilers (that might work with GLADE). As I say, the issue of how well this plug and play approach will work with Ada 95, but certainly given that we still hope that this will be a workable view, ACT has no intention of packaging GLADE and GNAT together! Robert Dewar Ada Core Technologies -----------== Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==---------- http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own