Re: GtkAda on Windows: Does anyone have a gtkada.gpr file?

[Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>]

Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote on comp.lang.ada:
> On Sun, 17 Oct 2010 14:32:25 -0700 (PDT), Michael R wrote:
>> I've just starting to look at GtkAda on Windows.  My Ubuntu system
>> makes it relatively easy by supplying a gtkada2.gpr project file.
>
> Yep, instead of gtkada.gpr they invented gtkada2.gpr.

"They" were me and the reason was that I wanted to support both GtkAda
1.x and 2.x on the same machine; that never happened for lack of
manpower.

> When I use Fedora's GtkAda I add my own gtkada.gpr and some other gpr
> files to keep it consistent.

The OP never mentioned Fedora. In case you really meant Debian, I
remind your that per your request, gtkada.gpr was reinstated in Debian
starting with libgtkada2.14.2-dev in June this year. This is present
in Debian testing and probably in Ubuntu 10.10.

> But since GNAT FSF for Fedora/Ubuntu is quite broken anyway,

The GNAT in Debian (and hence Ubuntu) is far from broken and it works
quite well for me. I think your remark is a bit offensive given all
the hard work I put in the Debian compiler. In particular I backported
a lot of bug fixes into gnat-4.4, some even at your request (e.g.
http://bugs.debian.org/589164). Unless Fedora has the same level of
support and the same backported fixes, you should not imply that the
Debian and Fedora compilers are identical.

> I would not worry about that in your place.

The point of a binary distribution like Debian and Ubuntu is to take
the installation, compilation and configuration worries away. The OP
does not worry about his Ubuntu, he worries about GNAT GPL on Windows.
So your advice is misdirected.

> You better use GNAT GPL 2010 for
> Linux and its GtkAda instead. BTW, the Fedora GtkAda is also outdated, when
> I checked it last time. In particular pixbuf was not an gobject, if I correctly
> remember. That is very nasty incompatibility. In short, see above, do not
> use it.

The OP never mentioned Fedora and he is not using it, so you should be
happy :)

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Ludovic Brenta.