Re: Mixing Cygnus & Gnat compilers on the same machine

[Ted Dennison<dennison@telepath.com>]

In article <m3zod7qvz5.fsf@emma1.emma.line.org>, Matthias Andree says...
>
>Being a C/C++/Perl programmer, and as someone who's just considering if
>Ada 95 (Gnat) might be worth learning, I'd really appreciate if Gnat was
>a real part of the GNU compiler collection, it would give a comfortable
..
>problems, and enhancing portability. People could start, for example,
>developing free software in Ada95 without requiring the possible users
>to install a binary package.

I'm not sure what you mean by this. I'm the maintainer of the SETI@Home Service
(see http://www.telepath.com/dennison/Ted/SETI/SETI_Service.html ), a free
software project written in Ada95 using Gnat. It has quite a few users, and none
of them had to install anything special other than the program executables
themselves. 

Perhaps you are talking about distributing sources, and not having to install a
separate compiler. For my user-base that's not really much of an issue, as very
few Win2K/NT users have a compiler of any sort installed, let alone the
(non-Gnat) gcc compiler. I understand this is now typical for propriatary Unixes
as well, exept that most users go ahead and pay extra for the C compiler.

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