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Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2005 22:01:12 -0400
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Martin Dowie wrote:
> Jeff C wrote:
> 
>> Steve wrote:
>>
>>> Now if there were just pre-built binaries for various platformas at a 
>>> nice central place... kind of like the old AdaCore public distributions.
>>>
>>> Steve
>>> (The Duck)
>>>
>>
>> While I agree it would be nice, things are starting to settle down. 
>> Ada is now included in the distribution media of most of the major 
>> Linux distributions...
>>
>> Solaris (sparc at least) users can visit blastwave.org which has 
>> prebuilt gcc's that include Ada support.
>>
>> Windows users can go the mingw.org route..
>>
>> In some ways this is not as nice as the old public GNAT releases (one 
>> stop Ada shopping). The biggest problem for Windows users has been the 
>> lack of a good gdb that worked with modern Ada and mingw.
>>
>> There were slightly painful ways around it but things are getting better.
>>
>> Maybe all we need is a nice index/wiki write-up with links for each of 
>> the recommended solutions.
> 
> 
> And no ASIS! :-(
> 
> Unless I've missed something...

Yes...There is still that problem...
There is always http://gnat-asis.sourceforge.net/ but I agree that not 
having it as part of the standard RPMs/packages is a pain and makes the 
barrier for entry a bit high.