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,f59d6c1c0a3dac5f X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local01.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.comcast.com!news.comcast.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2006 21:00:19 -0600 Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2006 21:53:54 -0500 From: Jeffrey Creem User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (Windows/20050923) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: ada and pl/sql References: <122gh5o729tsfcf@corp.supernews.com> <122gt3l754l4se2@corp.supernews.com> In-Reply-To: <122gt3l754l4se2@corp.supernews.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.147.74.171 X-Trace: sv3-0Tk2WRJg4bG8VlMlajDRTamZcXw4pG19xJNHW5+jXortZu/FfxSpeZs+jfJWRnFn+KIhjkaX1jFqvde!1DNrnAf7elWgw4mSK1YfdF8/hTFVbOymRNjIfrIY5ANYMsQLH6DnMJndo80vqN0yTCEZlRVHBdBm!BEc= X-Complaints-To: abuse@comcast.net X-DMCA-Complaints-To: dmca@comcast.net X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.32 Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:3667 Date: 2006-03-27T21:53:54-05:00 List-Id: Jason King wrote: > Now don't laugh folks, but most of my work is done on Windows. Is the > gcc Ada usable and does it include Ada 2005? I'd prefer something > gnat-like as a cursory examination of add-on packages leads me to > believe gnat has more contributions and extensions than all the other > implementations combined. If I understand correctly the current free > GNAT builds are GPL'ed not LGPL'ed which would put a crimp in some of > the things I want to develop. More specifically, the GNAT GPL Edition has GPL runtime libraries instead of GPL + linking/generics exception (making it sort of act like what everyone assumes the LGPL says but which it does not). If you plan on distributing executables built with the GNAT GPL edition, you would need to do so under the terms of the GPL. In any case, GCC is "gnat like" since it is the same compiler. What you loose is that a "GNAT" release from AdaCore gets more testing and is released when it is ready for Ada (v.s. GCC releases in which Ada status is not currently allowed to be a major driver in terms of the release). The biggest problem right now is that we don't have a really good (or even bad) release installer for GNAT/GCC 4.1.0 under windows. Normally, I'd just point you to www.mingw.org but they are a bit behind when it comes to the newer GCC releases and don't have an Ada focus (they never release GDB versions that are fully up to speed on Ada -- thought that has gotten better as the standard GDB has gotten better but there is still a ways to go).