Re: GNAT GARLIC implementation

Re: GNAT GARLIC implementation

[Robert Dewar]

"It is a seperate FSF product, the same as GNAT itself, but where you get it
from and how you build/port/use it I don't know."

This is a little misleading. FSF had and has nothing to do with GNAT and
Garlic. GNAT is currently maintained by ACT, but we assign the copyright
to Free Software Foundation -- a useful way of makingit clear that the
intention is that it remain under the GPL. Similarly, Garlic is a product
that has primarily been created in France that will be maintained by
ACT/Europe. Again, the copyright is being assigned to FSF to guarantee
continued free availability, but these are not FSF products in the
sense that GNU itself or GCC are FSF products.

Re: GNAT GARLIC implementation

[Simon Johnston]

--- Originally sent to gnatlist ---

> I would like to try porting the Ada 95 Distributed Systems Annex E, as
> implemented by GARLIC for GNAT, to Win NT and 95.

Good man! I could do with a working copy of this Annex to understand its
implication for projects I am working on.

> The GNAT library source code has many references to the GARLIC package
> inside System.RPC but GARLIC itself is not included in the source.

Nope, I believe it is a seperate project being done in Europe by Cyrille
Cromar? I don't know about the name exactly.

> No response yet from ACT concerning how to get a copy of GARLIC.
> Does GARLIC fall under the GNU licensing terms or is it
> a separate product?  In the latter case, will I still be
> able to place my port under the FSF copy-left domain?

It is a seperate FSF product, the same as GNAT itself, but where you get it
from and how you build/port/use it I don't know.

> I became interested in this because (as Scott Moody has pointed out)
> Ada distribution through automated remote call interfaces
> seems much simpler to use than CORBA and other network interfaces.

Firstly I think it would be simpler, and secondly I think it is a very
important addition to the language and the more people using it and
understanding its implications and possible problems the better.

> Right now, I can get two local or networked Windows Ada programs
> to talk to each other via sockets but I would rather use an abstraction
> like that described in Annex E.

Absolutely.

> Paul Pukite
> puk@maroon.tc.umn.edu

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Re: GNAT GARLIC implementation

[Samuel Tardieu]

>>>>> "Simon" == Simon Johnston <skj@ACM.ORG> writes:

>> The GNAT library source code has many references to the GARLIC
>> package inside System.RPC but GARLIC itself is not included in the
>> source.

Simon> Nope, I believe it is a seperate project being done in Europe
Simon> by Cyrille Cromar? I don't know about the name exactly.

His name is "Cyrille Comar", from ACT/ACT-Europe (ACT-Europe is
maintaining this implementation of the distributed systems annex).

>> No response yet from ACT concerning how to get a copy of
>> GARLIC. Does GARLIC fall under the GNU licensing terms or is it a
>> separate product?  In the latter case, will I still be able to
>> place my port under the FSF copy-left domain?

Simon> It is a seperate FSF product, the same as GNAT itself, but
Simon> where you get it from and how you build/port/use it I don't
Simon> know.

The distributed systems annex implementation is right now in
alpha-test stage. If you want more information about it or if you want
to be warned when the final product (or beta-test stage) is out,
please send a mail to

             <distribution@act-europe.gnat.com>

asking for more information.

The distributed systems annex will be released under the GPL and
maintained by ACT-Europe ; its sources will be free and will stay
free.

  Sam
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