From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FORGED_GMAIL_RCVD, FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,e0a833839e226c98 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!postnews.google.com!a9g2000prl.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: Adrian Hoe Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Missing Ada components in Ubuntu Date: Mon, 26 May 2008 07:25:11 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: References: <5c7f95fb-8fe8-4abb-bdcc-f0c8731a9f59@q27g2000prf.googlegroups.com> <6456fec7-4037-4ca4-bf99-edcac7b26e3d@b5g2000pri.googlegroups.com> <08fa745c-5471-4970-9270-47344e04b66f@m45g2000hsb.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 60.53.234.228 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1211811911 12013 127.0.0.1 (26 May 2008 14:25:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 26 May 2008 14:25:11 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: a9g2000prl.googlegroups.com; posting-host=60.53.234.228; posting-account=coq9PAkAAAB2Xx46RZLFJw5dY9DVXW4- User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.1.14) Gecko/20080404 Firefox/2.0.0.14,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:374 Date: 2008-05-26T07:25:11-07:00 List-Id: On May 26, 6:03 pm, Ludovic Brenta 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/