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 Path: border1.nntp.dca3.giganews.com!backlog3.nntp.dca3.giganews.com!border3.nntp.dca.giganews.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.earthlink.com!news.earthlink.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2013 16:53:17 -0600 From: Dennis Lee Bieber Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: CPAN style Ada repository Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2013 17:53:35 -0500 Organization: IISS Elusive Unicorn Message-ID: References: <52976431$1@news.actrix.co.nz> <5298e97c$0$1659$2c885b36@post.eweka.nl> X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 6.00/32.1186 X-No-Archive: YES MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 76.249.16.78 X-Trace: sv3-17Eyj7ycCkfGghN1vsWJsqGp5MO+YaPiUNdbBKmdcW/r5nkMaq3JsjpHEsMPD9BZPvHVAvHyuQoyRVx!yovNthJ6oG4AidonPao7qVhbo+OQaZ04lN9ayroQ36cagFTHo1KMYs2mPQ9oh1/MvR/RBNGe9xhS!57Vvqj7HcZ3iggWHR2Av6/fC7g== X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 1936 Xref: number.nntp.dca.giganews.com comp.lang.ada:184038 Date: 2013-11-29T17:53:35-05:00 List-Id: On Fri, 29 Nov 2013 20:17:24 +0000, Simon Wright declaimed the following: >Felix Krause writes: > >> The major problem is that from what I know, Ada code is not >> very portable between compilers (even the .ads/.adb naming >> convention is GNAT-specific). > >The only other compiler I have (recent) experience of is ObjectAda, >which was quite happy to import .ads/.adb files into its library. > Not sure how difficult it would be to go /to/ Rational Ada -- but that compiler uses an even less clear naming than GNAT... *.1.ada => *.ads *.2.ada => *.adb -- Wulfraed Dennis Lee Bieber AF6VN wlfraed@ix.netcom.com HTTP://wlfraed.home.netcom.com/