Re: Missing Ada components in Ubuntu

[Adrian Hoe <abyhoe@gmail.com>]

On Jun 1, 11:26 pm, Ludovic Brenta <ludo...@ludovic-brenta.org> wrote:
> Adrian Hoe writes:
> > Oh, BTW, Debian Etch has only gnat-4.1 stable. Only "sid" (unstable)
> > or "lenny" has gnat-4.3.
>
> Yes.  I think I did recommend Debian Etch as the current stable
> platform.  It has libaws 2.2.  I will continue to recommend Etch
> unless you can tell me which features of AWS you need that appeared
> after 2.2.
>
> > Sid is similar to Ubuntu's Intrepid.
>
> No, it is the other way around. Debian is the source, the origin.
> Ubuntu follows Debian, but occasionally breaks support for some Ada
> packages :)
>
> > I still can't release my product to customer on unstable
> > platform. :(
>
> Then why do you choose an unstable and broken platform (Ubuntu) to
> develop on?
>
> --
> Ludovic Brenta.

No. I didn't choose to develop on Ubuntu. I develop on Mac OS X. The
target at customer site is Ubuntu. Not I choose. Customer has already
had Ubuntu server running. Currently, they are on Feisty and soon
going to upgrade to Hardy.
--
Adrian Hoe
http://adrianhoe.com/adrianhoe/