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!news4.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!wns13feed!worldnet.att.net!209.244.4.230!newsfeed1.dallas1.level3.net!news.level3.com!news.binc.net!clubley From: clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP (Simon Clubley) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: GNAT GPL 2005 Edition is now available Date: 15 Sep 2005 12:20:18 -0500 Organization: Encompasserve Message-ID: References: <432919be$0$10539$4d4eb98e@read.news.fr.uu.net> <1126794444.071827.191320@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: eisner.encompasserve.org X-Trace: grandcanyon.binc.net 1126804749 16377 192.135.80.34 (15 Sep 2005 17:19:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@binc.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 17:19:09 +0000 (UTC) Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:4730 Date: 2005-09-15T12:20:18-05:00 List-Id: In article <1126794444.071827.191320@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com>, "Ludovic Brenta" writes: > 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. > > I'm counting two votes when someone expressed strong preference for > one of the contenders, one vote for the second-best, and one negative > vote for a contender that is outright rejected. I'm not voting myself > because, as I already said, I don't really have a preference one way > or another. > (Although I don't use Debian, I will vote because I don't want other distributions to think it's ok for them to include gnat-gpl if Debian do so.) A strong negative vote for gnat-gpl. A compiler that restricts what you can do with it has no place as a primary compiler in a Linux system when other options are available. If gnat-4.0 is stable enough, use that; if not, use gnat-3.4. > 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'm using GCC-3.4 for native code. For RTEMS based code, I'm using GCC-3.2.3 because that version is the one supported by RTEMS. (BTW, before anyone points out that a new RTEMS version has just come out which supports GCC 4.x, I know, but I'm in the middle of a project...). As for OS, I use older Redhat versions, Fedora and Scientific Linux (which is Redhat based). I'm about to dump Fedora in favour of Scientific Linux. I don't have a reason for not using Debian, it's just that I started out using Redhat based distributions, and haven't had a reason to change. Simon. -- Simon Clubley, clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP Microsoft: The Standard Oil Company of the 21st century