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Can either of you tell me why the FSF gcc/ada doesn't serve that purpose now and at a zero price point?

For windows TDM-GCC (4.9.2) seems to be working well for me. See GetAdaNow.com
Granted the lack of gprtools is annoying, gnatmake still works for my purposes on Windows.

David Botton


On Monday, January 5, 2015 7:48:22 PM UTC-5, Hubert wrote:
> > 	I'd be happy with a low-cost non-support non-encumbered ACT release...
> > Say $100-200 to get a version without the GPL passthrough to built
> > applications, but with no rights to pester them about perceived bugs.
> 
> I agree. All these arguments here really sound like nitpicking that 
> serve no one.
> I think the future of Ada would be better served if there was a low cost 
> version of Gnat that can be used in small scale commercial projects. 
> Other companies do that a lot, I see that especially in the gaming tool 
> industry where there are offers like "Free to use if you make less than 
> so much money per year, above that a paid version is required. Could be 
> in one or two price levels.