Re: Ada in Debian: transition to GCC 4.2

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

Pascal Obry writes:

> Ludovic,
>
>> The SJLJ version of the run-time is particularly important for Annex E
>> distributed systems. 
>
> I'm using GLADE with ZCX without trouble since long time... So, just
> curious, what is the relation between SJLJ and Annex-E ? What problem
> did you have ?

Xavier knows more about this.  It has to do with propagating
exceptions across partitions; the ZCX mechanism is apparently not
supported or very buggy.

>> After that, I will update and re-upload all Ada packages over the
>> course of several months, as my free time permits.
>> 
>> I intend to work in roughly this order:
>> 
>> gnat-glade (upgrade to 2007 with SJLJ exceptions)
>> gnat-gdb (upgrade to 6.4+2007)
>> asis (upgrade to 2006 or 2007, whichever works best)
>> adacontrol (upgrade to 1.7)
>> libgtkada2 (upgrade to 2.10)
>> libtemplates-parser (upgrade to a recent CVS snapshot)
>
> I bet you meant SVN snapshot here, right ?

No, I meant the CVS from libre.adacore.com.  Have they switched to
Subversion?  Or are you referring to your own repository?

>> libxmlada2
>> gnat-gps
>> libaws
>
> Will this be SVN too ? Also note that AWS comes with the
> templates_parser engine, so above libtemplates-parser is the
> standalone version, right?

In Etch, this is a snapshot of the standalone version which also works
with AWS and GPS; both use slightly different versions of it.  I
intend to do the same for Lenny.

-- 
Ludovic Brenta.