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: 103376,64fc8d51594bbaad X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news3.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!novia!news-hub.siol.net!news.siol.net!not-for-mail From: Karel Miklav User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.2 (X11/20060510) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: GNAT at FreeBSD -- Question about available versions ... References: <447F6576.6020006@lovetemple.adbloccker.net> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Fri, 02 Jun 2006 19:13:42 +0200 NNTP-Posting-Host: 86.61.22.195 X-Complaints-To: abuse@siol.net X-Trace: news.siol.net 1149268423 86.61.22.195 (Fri, 02 Jun 2006 19:13:43 MET DST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 02 Jun 2006 19:13:43 MET DST Organization: Slovenija OnLine - SiOL Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:4651 Date: 2006-06-02T19:13:42+02:00 List-Id: M E Leypold wrote: > BTW: I remember that 3.15p has been in earlier FreeBSD-Release. But > when I looked into Release 6.x I only found gnat-2005 (ACT GPL GNAT, I > think). GNAT 3.15p wasn't dropped, it was just updated to GNAT 2005. Check the revision history on ie.: http://www.freshports.org/lang/gnat. There is still a binary version of the old compiler on servers used to bootstrap the new one. > Does anybody here know, wether there is any technical reason that > Gnat-3.xp has been dropped from the 6.x release stream (i.e. problems > between the tasking runtime and FreeBSD thread model or whatever) , or > wether the only reason is that it was just too much effort or no > maintainer available? There are no direct technical problems just a lack of manpower. Maybe you can help - try to download and play with my port than share your experience (beware, it doesn't deinstall). -- Regards, Karel Miklav