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=0.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,bdd927ef8bb6088d X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: xanthian@well.com (Kent Paul Dolan) Subject: Re: Announcing GNAT version 3.12p for Linux and Sparc Solaris Date: 1999/10/23 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 539468985 References: <7uia7h$kn4$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <7upmel$ttm@drn.newsguy.com> X-Complaints-To: news@wenet.net X-Trace: news.wenet.net 940640290 208.178.101.2 (Fri, 22 Oct 1999 17:58:10 PDT) Organization: Birthright Party "The birthright of humankind is the stars!" Reply-To: xanthian@well.com (Kent Paul Dolan) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 22 Oct 1999 17:58:10 PDT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-10-23T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article , Tim Erickson wrote: >On Fri, 22 Oct 1999 12:48:21, mitch@nospam wrote: >> In article >> , >> tjerick@ibm.net says... >> >I hate having to beg but as an OS/2 user I have grown used to it; I >> >don't like it but what are you going to do? >> Switch to linux ;) >No joy there . . . ;-) Well, I've been using FreeBSD for about three weeks now in a new job, and it took me less than 80 characters of typing to bring up gnat 3.11(p?) from the /usr/ports/lang/gnat directory. Color me _extremely_ impressed. make clean make all make install clean distclean was _all_ I had to do after getting to the correct directory and sudo-ing in as root. I don't have any Linux experience yet with which to make a comparision, but judged on its own, FreeBSD is a _very_ viable alternative OS for a PC-Clone platform, and a usable gnat development platform (probably better lots than that, but my experience is limited to one non-trivial Ada 95 program developed there, so far). -- Kent Paul Dolan.