Re: Missing Ada components in Ubuntu

[Adrian Hoe <abyhoe@gmail.com>]

On May 26, 6:03 pm, Ludovic Brenta <ludo...@ludovic-brenta.org> wrote:
> Adrian Hoe wrote:
> > The problem is, I moved from Debian to Ubuntu. :( As a matter of fact,
> > Ubuntu's installation is a lot easier than Debian, according to my
> > experience.
>
> I don't see this as very relevant. Ask yourself these two questions:
> a) how many time do you install an operating system on your computer?
> b) how many time do you compile your Ada program on your computer?
>
> My answers are: a) 1 and b) many times a day. Therefore, I would
> choose anm operating system that is optimised for b).
>
> > But Debian's Etch distributes up to gnat-4.1. My development
> > environment on Mac OS X is gnat-4.4, so gnat-4.3 is pretty much closer
> > to that. I don't know what is the big difference between 4.1, 4.3 and
> > 4.4. I haven't followed the development of Ada/gnat compiler for a
> > while.
>
> I am confused. If your development platform is Mac OS X, why do you
> use Ubuntu? If you want something stable, why don't you use Debian
> stable? If you don't know the differences between gnat-4.1, gnat-4.3
> and gnat-4.4, why do you think you need any one in particular? If you
> want a reliable compiler, why do you use gnat-4.4 which is in stage 1,
> probably one year from release, and very unstable because major
> changes occur in it every single day?
>
> --
> Ludovic Brenta.


My main development and target platform is Mac OS X and sometimes
Linux as the target platform. This is the first web-enabled
application (with AWS) I am developing. When I switched from Debian to
Ubuntu last year, I wasn't developing with AWS at that time. So,
development went on well on Mac OS X until I tried to build my AWS app
on Ubuntu...

as for gnat-4.4 on Mac OS X, it was recommended. And so far I have no
problem with gnat-4.4.
--
Adrian Hoe
http://adrianhoe.com/adrianhoe/