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=0.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,TO_NO_BRKTS_FROM_MSSP autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,ea451393a6c97734 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-04-24 10:43:37 PST Path: newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!feed.textport.net!newsranger.com!www.newsranger.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada From: Ted Dennison References: <9bkd51$530$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <3ADDEEAA.D8F16935@bigfoot.de> <9bkt30$asm$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <3ADE4B03.68BA6651@bigfoot.de> <9bmphh$1jt$1@nh.pace.co.uk> Subject: Re: Mixing Cygnus & Gnat compilers on the same machine Message-ID: X-Abuse-Info: When contacting newsranger.com regarding abuse please X-Abuse-Info: forward the entire news article including headers or X-Abuse-Info: else we will not be able to process your request X-Complaints-To: abuse@newsranger.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 13:43:16 EDT Organization: http://www.newsranger.com Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 17:43:16 GMT Xref: newsfeed.google.com comp.lang.ada:6897 Date: 2001-04-24T17:43:16+00:00 List-Id: In article , 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. --- T.E.D. homepage - http://www.telepath.com/dennison/Ted/TED.html home email - mailto:dennison@telepath.com