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On 22-Mar-14 12:28, Stephen Leake wrote:
> Lucretia <laguest9000@googlemail.com> writes:
>
>> On Thursday, 20 March 2014 19:28:48 UTC, Shark8  wrote:
>>> On 19-Mar-14 14:04, Alan Browne wrote:
>>>> On 2014.03.18, 19:23 , Shark8 wrote:
>>
>>>> 1. Delphi?   Why not in Ada?
>>>
>>> Answered upthread: mostly possible issues in licensing and my rotten
>>> luck getting DB bindings to compile/link correctly.
>>
>> Really? You couldn't get postgres-ada to compile? Really easy. If
>> you're talking gnatcoll, then yeah, that's a complete bitch, don't
>> think anyone's been too successful there.
>
> I use gnatcoll for db access. There are quirks, but it works quite well.

I could never get gnatcoll to work; it took a /lot/ of time/effort to 
get it so it would compiler and link... and even then it wouldn't work 
when I tried to use it.

I'm going to hazard a guess that you were using a linux-system, yes? 
(I'm on a Windows system, and the building process [IMO] seems to be 
overly dependent on the OS.)