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From: bourguet@my-dejanews.com
Subject: Re: ACT ANNOUNCES: GNAT 3.11p now available!
Date: 1999/01/28
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In article <78nb9u$t8f$1@remarQ.com>,
  "news.oxy.com" <Vladimir_Olensky@oxy.com> wrote:
>
> Samuel Tardieu wrote in message <877lu8u6q5.fsf@zaphod.enst.fr>...
> >>>>>> "Vladimir" == news oxy com <Vladimir_Olensky@oxy.com> writes:
> >
> >Vladimir> But life is life and nothing is perfect.  I hoped that GLADE
> >Vladimir> would come with GNAT 3.11p as ready and easy to use option
> >Vladimir> of the GNAT 3.11p installation package (at list for Windows
> >Vladimir> NT users) that can be installed as one of the available
> >Vladimir> options during installation.  Instead it goes separately and
> >Vladimir> you need to mess up with additional Unix utilities to
> >Vladimir> install it. I think it is not very convenient for Windows NT
> >Vladimir> users and so it does not help to promote Ada.  Moreover,
> >Vladimir> annex-E is part of the language definition and as such it
> >Vladimir> should go as one of the installation options.
> >
> >Note that users of Debian GNU/Linux systems can get GLADE as a binary
> >package :-) Just as GNAT 3.11p, GLADE 3.11p for Debian GNU/Linux is
> >available on http://www.inf.enst.fr/~tardieu/gnat/ and will be part of
> >the Debian 2.2 release.
> >
>
> This is an example of how things should be done !!!

So do like Samuel... build something and make it available.

All what is needed is available, it is just a packaging issue... It seems
that people who pay ACT prefer their money to go on developping new features
that's good enough for me as I'll also get those feature.

Ressource is limited (see other posts on this subject) and packaging is
something someone not very experimented may do (well, perhaps not on
Windows :-)). I prefer that Robert Dewar write compiler code instead of
fighting with Windows Registery...

Yours,

-- Jean-Marc
BTW, I've a patch for ada-mode 3.1 so that key bindings reserved to user are
no more defined by ada-mode. If someone can put it in a publicly available
place...

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