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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,3e26dfa741e64e5f X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!news.glorb.com!newsgate.cistron.nl!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!fi.sn.net!newsfeed2.fi.sn.net!feeder2.news.jippii.net!reader1.news.jippii.net!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: Tapio Kelloniemi Subject: Re: GNAT GPL 2005 Edition is now available References: <1126794444.071827.191320@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com> Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Message-ID: <8TkWe.24645$Qt5.22123@reader1.news.jippii.net> Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 20:32:04 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 217.30.176.187 X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@saunalahti.com X-Trace: reader1.news.jippii.net 1126816324 217.30.176.187 (Thu, 15 Sep 2005 23:32:04 EEST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 23:32:04 EEST Organization: Saunalahti Customer Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:4751 Date: 2005-09-15T20:32:04+00:00 List-Id: "Ludovic Brenta" wrote: >OK, here are the votes so far. There are four contenders for the >title of "next Ada compiler for Debian": GNAT GPL 2005 Edition >(gnat-gpl below), gnat-3.4, gnat-4.0 and gnat-3.4+patches backported >from gnat-gpl. In my opinion, GNAT GPL has only one problem: it is based on GCC 3.4 which is not what my host system compiler is (4.0.1) and I don't want to have two GCC's installed, nor do I want to compile some packages with one and others with another. If I used Debian, I would use the most recent GCC version (the same which is used for compiling programs in other languages as well) and hope that it has Ada2005 support. So: 2 pts: GCC-4.0 (or preferably 4.1) 1 pts: GNAT GPL (but ONLY if it HAS support for C, C++, Objective-C and Java). If it does not support these languages: 0 pts for all the rest, since GCC 4.0 has better Ada2005 support (and is otherwise more featureful) than the older versions (obsolescent form my point of view). Actually patching the most recent GCC to get the most recent Ada2005 support would be my choice, but it won't most likely be available for a while. >PS. If you voice your opinion, I'd like to hear about your current >distribution and version of GNAT. I'd also like to hear your reasons >for using, or not using, Debian. Just curious. I don't use Debian, andmost likely will never use, since I compile all my installed software from source code (http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/). If I used a distribution, I would probably use Debian, since it strictly separates free and non-free software packages from each other and because it calls itself a GNU/Linux distro. -- Tapio