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

The current version of GNAT (in Debian) allows compiling Ada 83, Ada 95
and Ada 2005 programs.  I think that allowing Ada 95 programs to use
AUnit is better than forbidding this.  So the main objection is that
this patch requires changing the aliversion; I would undertand that you
wouldn't want to do that.

-- 
Ludovic Brenta.