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From: Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>
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Jacob Sparre Andersen <sparre@nbi.dk> writes:

> Ludovic Brenta wrote:
>
>> Nothing is 100% certain at this point, except that there is no hurry
>> to decide on a definitive Ada compiler for Debian Etch.  However, I
>> sense that some people are in a hurry to move away from gnat 3.15p.
>> Am I correct in this?
>
> Not really.  I miss ASIS and have the impression that tasking doesn't
> work quite as it should on my Debian/PPC workstation, but things do
> basically seem to work.

Good news thanks to Xavier Grave: ASIS 3.15p is now available on
Debian Etch on powerpc, too!  See
http://packages.qa.debian.org/a/asis/news/1.html

>> BTW, how many people here use gnat-3.4 or gnat-4.0 regularly?
>
> I normally don't use either, but I could give them a shot with some
> critical (for my work) code, to see how they perform.

Excellent.

>> If gnat-3.4 is chosen, its future availability in Etch is
>> guaranteed, so I can start a transition of the existing Debian
>> packages soon (e.g. October-November 2005).  No matter what, this
>> transition will take time and effort on my part.
>>
>> If gnat-4.0 is chosen, then I'll probably wait until Matthias and
>> the Debian GCC maintainers decide on whether or not to move to 4.1,
>> and only then will I start the transition.  This places the
>> transition in the May-June 2006 timeframe.
>
> It sounds like it will make life easier for you (and those who get
> around to help you), if we go for gnat-3.4 rather than gnat-4.0.  If
> everything else balances, this should also be taken into account.

Correct.

-- 
Ludovic Brenta.