Re: GNAT on Debian or Gentoo?

[bdbryant@mail.utexas.edu (Bobby D. Bryant)]

On Tue, 21 Mar 2006, "Adrian Hoe" <abyhoe@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I have been using SuSE Linux all the time and I am tired of SuSE's
> broken online updates which frequently crashed and hang my systems.
> This happened again 2 days ago after I performed online update to some
> systems both in my office and home. I have been testing Debian on two
> of my machines at work and both run very stable without reboot. The
> online update using apt-get was very stable indeed.
> 
> One advantage of Debian is that one can easily perform a version update
> using apt-get. A version update on SuSE is a little tricky and
> troublesome.
> 
> I am thinking of switching to Debian or Gentoo. Does anyone have any
> experience developing Ada applications on both Debian and Gentoo Linux?
> 
> I read some unfavored comments on Gentoo regarding outdated emerge on
> gnat and Ada related packages. On the other hand, I have heard many
> good comments about developing Ada applications on both Debian and
> Gentoo. I have also read and heard about developing Ada applications on
> SuSE.
> 
> I am a little confused and eagerly to move away from SuSE or I should
> stay with SuSE.
> 
> Can someone shine some light of wisdom on me?

I use GNAT on Gentoo.  I set flags to let me use the most recent stuff
available (kind of like using Debian Unstable), and I get the GNAT 3.4.5
that's built on GCC 3.4.5.

-- 
Bobby Bryant
Austin, Texas