Re: FYI: GNAT and GCC

[pontius@btv.MBI.com.invalid (Dale Pontius)]

In article <3BBBCF3B.9050403@earthlink.net>,
        "Ian S. Nelson" <nelsonis@earthlink.net> writes:
> Robert Dewar wrote:
>> "Ian S. Nelson" <nelsonis@earthlink.net> wrote in message news:<3BBA9724.2020009@earthlink.net>...
>>
>>>Florian Weimer wrote:
>>>So GNAT or rather Ada will be in GCC 3.1? Ada will be part of *the*
>>>compiler?!?
>>>
>>>This is some of the best news I've heard in quite a while.
>>>
>>
>>
>> People unfamiliar with gcc may be reading far too much into
>> this announcement. For example, this definitely does not
>> mean that all installations of gcc will include Ada, no
>> more than they include g77 (or chill for that matter)
>> right now. It is just one of the front ends that is
>> available, it is not automatically included.
>>
>> Robert Dewar
>
>
> It doesn't mean it will be there but it means it will be there when I
> build GCC..  And most likely Mandrake, Redhat, *BSD, etc.. will start
> adding support.
>
Just for a minor chunk of other good news, at least rpms for gnat,
gtk-ada, and a few other things are on the RedHat 7.1 PowerTools
CD. I don't have the system with it installed handy, so I can't
comment on the versions. Plus I know it's on PowerTools and not on
either of the base install CDs, but at least it's in the package.

Dale Pontius
(NOT speaking for IBM)