Re: A known planned date fora GNAT 4.7 or 4.8?

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

Yannick Duchêne writes:
> Not a request for anything, except information. I had a little thing
> to do, which I wanted to do with Ada, preferably with the new Ada 2012
> iterator interface, to practice with it, but GNAT 4.6, which is the
> one coming with Ubuntu Precise does not support it. So I would like to
> know if I would better wait more or less to later start with the Ada
> 2012 iterators, or if I would better not wait at all and start without
> it (I though the GNAT coming with Precise, to which I recently
> switched, was fully Ada 2012). That's why I would like to know about
> any known date. If it's near enough to me, I will wait, otherwise, I
> will resume without it.

I recommend you not wait for gnat-4.7 or gnat-4.8, sorry.  Also if you
want to minimize the waiting, switch to Debian unstable because gnat-4.7
will appear there first.

I've started work on gnat-4.7 but it will be some time before it is in a
state where I can upload to unstable.  How much time, I cannot tell as I
do all of this in my spare time.  Even then it is possible that I decide
that gnat-4.8 will be the next default compiler in Debian 8 "Jessie".
I'll make that decision around March 2013, after GCC 4.8 is released.

-- 
Ludovic Brenta.