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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!postnews.google.com!r38g2000yqn.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: Ludovic Brenta Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada in Debian: gnat-4.4 is in unstable; please test Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2009 13:23:47 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: References: <12f17dd9-2e75-40a8-a591-7628756e1772@b14g2000yqd.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 94.108.130.223 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1249935839 7035 127.0.0.1 (10 Aug 2009 20:23:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2009 20:23:59 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: r38g2000yqn.googlegroups.com; posting-host=94.108.130.223; posting-account=pcLQNgkAAAD9TrXkhkIgiY6-MDtJjIlC User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.0.11) Gecko/2009061208 Iceweasel/3.0.12 (Debian-3.0.12-1),gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:7674 Date: 2009-08-10T13:23:47-07:00 List-Id: Someone asked me privately, but I feel this is of interest to everyone: > Do you have plans to add gprbuild and ASIS also? I have plans to update ASIS to the GNAT GPL 2009 version; this will be part of the library transition that I announced here. I will in fact update all existing packages. As for gprbuild, this is a new package and I'm not planning to do it myself as I am in fact trying to concentrate on fewer packages. If someone is interested in packaging GPTBuild, please do not hesitate; as I have said repeatedly: - I will help would-be packagers of Ada software in Debian; just contact me privately if you need pointers. - you do not have to be a Debian Developer before you contribute (in fact the opposite is true: you must own and maintain packages in Debian before you are even considered for Debian Developer status). The Debian release manager has admitted that his announcement[1] concerning the new release schedule was premature. So the plan for a freeze in December 2009 is officially abandoned[2]. A new plan and schedule are due in September. [1] http://www.debian.org/News/2009/20090729 [2] http://www.debian.org/News/2009/20090730 This does have an impact on my own schedule and I am no longer in a big hurry; I will await the decision in September and, based on that, will decide on my own release goals. Tentatively: - enable support for multiarch (i.e. for i386/amd64 and others: emit 64-bit binaries on 32-bit platforms and vice-versa; for mips/mipsel, emit little-endian code on big-endian platforms and vice-versa). This is a new feature in GCC 4.4. - enable support for the Distributed Systems Annex through the addition of PolyORB. Xavier Grave and Reto Buerki are working on this and have already managed to get CORBA and MOMA (Message-Oriented Middleware Architecture) working. I am sponsoring the package for them. The bottom line is: for now, please continue to test gnat-4.4 as extensively as you can, and please consider helping out with a package you are particularly interested in. I have already received valuable feedback in the form of bug reports (and encouragements, thanks for that!) and I trust that Debian Squeeze will not only be worthy of Debian's reputation, but its support for Ada will raise the bar even higher. -- Ludovic Brenta.