Re: Missing Ada components in Ubuntu

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

Adrian Hoe wrote:
> My main development and target platform is Mac OS X and sometimes
> Linux as the target platform. This is the first web-enabled
> application (with AWS) I am developing. When I switched from Debian to
> Ubuntu last year, I wasn't developing with AWS at that time. So,
> development went on well on Mac OS X until I tried to build my AWS app
> on Ubuntu...
>
> as for gnat-4.4 on Mac OS X, it was recommended. And so far I have no
> problem with gnat-4.4.

OK, now I understand better. You forgot to mention you also "upgraded"
to Ubuntu 8.04, which didn't exist a year ago. This is what broke AWS.

I think your best options are: (a) revert to the previous version of
Ubuntu; use gnat-4.1 and libaws2.2 there; they're not broken and known
stable; (b) upgrade to Debian unstable (perhaps in a chroot); use
gnat-4.3; help me bring libaws2.5 to life and use that.

The risk with (a) is that your application requires Ada 2005 features
not yet present in gnat-4.1.  Otherwise, you can probably port your
application from Mac OS X without too much (or any) trouble. The risk
with (b) is that gnat-4.3 or libaws2.5 has new bugs.

--
Ludovic Brenta.