Re: ANN: Ahven 1.8

[Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org>]

Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org> writes:

> Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org> writes:
>> Tero Koskinen <tero.koskinen@iki.fi> writes:
>>
>>>  * AUnit is Ada 2005 code only and I think it can be compiled
>>>    only with GNAT (not 100% sure since I haven't tried it with
>>>    other Ada 2005 compilers)
>>
>> The 2005-ness occurs because AUnit uses a private copy of
>> Ada.Containers.Lists with some 05 constructs removed so that it can be
>> compiled with "an" Ada 95 compiler.
>>
>> Unfortunately, what they mean is "with an Ada 95 compiler that
>> recognises pragma Ada_2005 to mean that some Ada 2005 constructs are
>> permitted even when compiling in Ada 95 mode".
>>
>> This doesn't include older GNATs, and certainly won't include compilers
>> from other vendors.
>>
>> These patches update the current SVN source of AUnit to work with older
>> GNATs. Ask me if you need a copy and the news system has mangled them or
>> I've failed to drive Emacs correctly ...
>
> Stephe, how about applying this patch to Debian's version of AUnit?

I don't see why. Debian supports the current version of GNAT, which
supports the current Debian version (and newer AdaCore versions) of
AUnit. 

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-- Stephe