From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,8cf125f9b558ce64 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Samuel Tardieu Subject: Re: Linux and Opportunities for Ada Date: 1999/08/23 Message-ID: <87wvumkb0b.fsf@antinea.enst.fr>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 516121565 References: <7osc8q$m42@dfw-ixnews17.ix.netcom.com> <01beeaaa$a56433e0$6eb54f0c@default> <7pihpo$v93$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <37bd55cc@news1.us.ibm.net> Mail-Copies-To: sam@ada.eu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: usenet@enst.enst.fr X-Trace: enst.enst.fr 935406660 6900 137.194.160.145 (23 Aug 1999 11:11:00 GMT) Organization: TELECOM Paris User-Agent: Gnus/5.070084 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.84) XEmacs/21.2(beta3) (Aglaia) Mime-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: 23 Aug 1999 11:11:00 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-08-23T11:11:00+00:00 List-Id: >>>>> "Matthew" == Matthew Heaney writes: Matthew> Awesome!!! As a LinuxPPC user, it's been a royal pain trying Matthew> to be an Ada programmer too. My homegrown port of GNAT is Matthew> limping along (with lots of help from the Ada for Linux Matthew> team), but it will be a real treat to have to same Matthew> ease-of-use and -installation that the x86 guys have had for Matthew> a while. Why don't you install Debian GNU/Linux on your PPC? The "potato" version (the next one to be released) will include GNAT. If you like being on the bleeding edge, you can install it today and get GNAT and all the associated tools (GLADE, ASIS, GtkAda, etc.). Sam -- Samuel Tardieu -- sam@ada.eu.org