Re: Missing Ada components in Ubuntu

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

Sébastien writes:
>> The risk with (a) is that your application requires Ada 2005 features
>> not yet present in gnat-4.1.  Otherwise, you can probably port your
>> application from Mac OS X without too much (or any) trouble. The risk
>> with (b) is that gnat-4.3 or libaws2.5 has new bugs.
>
> In my experience, gnat-4.3 is more stable than gnat-4.1. But about AWS I
> can't say anything.
>
> Another point about AWS development, there is some Templates Parser
> with some special features developed that looks like nice, but I choose
> XML and XSL view using xmlada and a reimplemented Print
> function (since the provided xmlada function write on output, and I
> needed to write in a string). I can, of course, shared my code.

Of course, thanks to Debian stable, you can use AWS, XML/Ada,
Templates Parser and ASIS all at the same time in the same program.
So, I don't know what you mean by that.

> About AWS, why there is no AWS 2.4? What about xmlada, is it still
> maintained?

AWS 2.4 was not released as part of any "GNAT GPL" release, but was
probably sent to customers.  If you look at the source history, you
might find it at some point in the past year.

> I don't trust linux upgrades, got too many problems with them (one of
> the reason I move on FreeBSD actually), maybe you could just reinstall
> from scratch a debian unstable?

I have the opposite experience.  I install Debian exactly once per
computer, and then upgrade in place.  Reinstalling from scratch has
never been necessary for me.

> So maybe it's some elements to help you in your dev.

Patches to my packaging scripts are always welcome :)

-- 
Ludovic Brenta.