Re: Status of GNADE ODBC under Debian 64-bit

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

Stephen Leake wrote on comp.lang.ada:
> As far as I know, there is no current Debian maintainer for GNADE.
> I was the maintainer, but I've resigned, partly because the code is
> hard to maintain in the first place, and needs to be re-written.
> 
> I suggest you switch to gnatcoll, which includes Ada front-ends for
> postgres and SQLite3 (but not ODBC). That code is better written,
> and actively maintained, supported by paying customers. 
> 
> It also includes higher-level object oriented front-ends.
> 
> If paying customers lobby for ODBC support, it will happen.

But gnatcoll doesn't have a Debian maintainer either and is not even
packaged in Debian.  If someone here on comp.lang.ada would like to
make a difference, the one thing to know is that the sources of
gnatcoll are part of the sources of GPS, therefore packaging gnatcoll
for Debian requires modifying the packaging of gnat-gps; see
http://bugs.debian.org/640532.  As much as I would like to do that
work myself, I lack time for it.

PS. AFAIU, part of gnatcoll is built on top of GNADE (and includes a
fork of GNADE).

-- 
Ludovic Brenta.