Re: gnatmake to lose support for project files, gprbuild instead

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

Simon Wright writes:
> Not sure whether the Debian gnat package includes gprbuild?

No; gprbuild is packaged separately from gnat in Debian but both are
available.  gnatcoll and xmlada are also packaged separately.

Still I'm sad at the prospect of being forced to use gprbuild where
gnatmake now works.  As some people noted, this move makes it that much
more difficult to provide, install, maintain etc. a complete toolchain.

Note that even though gprbuild is pure GPL, it can produce proprietary
software.  The only thing that might possibly affect the licensing of
the software you compile with any toolchain is the license of the
*libraries* that you link or copy (via generic instantiation) into your
executable, and gprbuild is not a library.

--
Ludovic Brenta.