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=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Received: by 10.129.70.133 with SMTP id t127mr16095642ywa.58.1435532542930; Sun, 28 Jun 2015 16:02:22 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.140.81.149 with SMTP id f21mr127269qgd.8.1435532542906; Sun, 28 Jun 2015 16:02:22 -0700 (PDT) Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!mx02.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!au2pb.net!usenet.blueworldhosting.com!feeder01.blueworldhosting.com!peer02.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!z60no888849qgd.0!news-out.google.com!4ni18673qgh.1!nntp.google.com!j5no966388qga.1!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Sun, 28 Jun 2015 16:02:22 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <9965ebbe-e8af-4c73-86c7-9ab974b525f5@googlegroups.com> Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=50.250.123.221; posting-account=yiWntAoAAAC1KqC_shmxJYv07B9l6LNU NNTP-Posting-Host: 50.250.123.221 References: <9965ebbe-e8af-4c73-86c7-9ab974b525f5@googlegroups.com> User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: Subject: Re: gprbuild fun From: David Botton Injection-Date: Sun, 28 Jun 2015 23:02:22 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Received-Bytes: 2176 X-Received-Body-CRC: 917770042 Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:26520 Date: 2015-06-28T16:02:22-07:00 List-Id: > Sure. What could be the starting point ?=A0Is gnatmake full FSF=A0?=A0Cou= ld it be possible to add a sort of Ant or Maven written in Ada to replace G= PR Build ?=20 gnatmake is full FSF and part of the FSF tree. Once deprecated unless somet= hing changes it will no longer be possible to build an FSF GNAT using FSF t= ools. As it is, I doubt there will be future Windows 64 builds available al= ready after 4.9.x unless we do something. > On idea : could it be possible to simply write the "makefile" in Ada then= compile it first as an executable and use it to launch the rest of the com= pilation process ? To do that one only needs to develop a "building library= " in Ada. No messy XML=A0file required anymore ! I don't think removing all dependencies on ASIS and XML are even a question= for any future tool. gnatmake currently does not depend on either. David Botton