HELP TO BEGINNER

HELP TO BEGINNER

[powernews.libero.it]

Hi to all
Exploring the WEB I've found the PAL (Public Ada Library) but  it's
unavaible. I'm interesting to know if there is some free archive
containing various code (algorithms about  numerical integration and
similar...)
Thanks

Re: HELP TO BEGINNER

[Georg Bauhaus]

powernews.libero.it schrieb:
> Hi to all
> Exploring the WEB I've found the PAL (Public Ada Library) but  it's
> unavaible. I'm interesting to know if there is some free archive
> containing various code (algorithms about  numerical integration and
> similar...)
> Thanks

http://www.iste.uni-stuttgart.de/ps/AdaBasis/pal_1195/ada/pal.html

See also

http://www.adapower.com

Re: HELP TO BEGINNER (PAL)

[Georg Bauhaus]

Georg Bauhaus schrieb:
> powernews.libero.it schrieb:
>> Hi to all
>> Exploring the WEB I've found the PAL (Public Ada Library) but  it's
>> unavaible. I'm interesting to know if there is some free archive
>> containing various code (algorithms about  numerical integration and
>> similar...)
>> Thanks
> 
> http://www.iste.uni-stuttgart.de/ps/AdaBasis/pal_1195/ada/pal.html
> 
> See also
> 
> http://www.adapower.com


I forgot, the links have been taken offline... There
is a partial FTP mirror at Ada-Belgium IIRC.

Re: HELP TO BEGINNER (PAL)

[Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)]

I've found this one : ftp://ftp.cnam.fr/pub/Ada/PAL/
Unfortunately, it requires a login, and "guest"/"guest" does not seems
to work.
Do someone know the login ?

Re: HELP TO BEGINNER (PAL)

[Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)]

Here is the link to the *partial* mirror : ftp://ftp.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/pub/Ada-Belgium/mirrors/pal/

I gonna make a backup right now, before this one disappears the same
way as all the others ...

Re: HELP TO BEGINNER (PAL)

[Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)]

On that page, there is a word about a so called "Walnut Creek Ada
CDROM".
The link to the order form (I would like to get this one) does not
work.
But there is another link, which seems to be, as they say, a mirror of
the two CD-ROMs.

I'm still downloading the content of the "pal" directory from the FTP
repository mentioned in the latter post (very long...).

Will try this second one... and sure I will have fun, ... seems there
are good materials and documentation :)

A special thank to powernews.libero.it, beceause I've never heard
about the PAL until now.

Y.D.

Re: HELP TO BEGINNER (PAL)

[Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)]

Sorry, forgot the links :

+ http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~dirk/ada-belgium/ada-cdrom.html
+ ftp://ftp.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/pub/Ada-Belgium/cdrom

Have a nice day, all of you

Re: HELP TO BEGINNER (PAL)

[Randy Brukardt]

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"Hibou57 (Yannick Duch�ne)" <yannick_duchene@yahoo.fr> wrote in message 
news:4d141211-8950-496d-9787-eb0db24aced6@x38g2000yqj.googlegroups.com...
> Here is the link to the *partial* mirror : 
> ftp://ftp.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/pub/Ada-Belgium/mirrors/pal/
>
> I gonna make a backup right now, before this one disappears the same
> way as all the others ...

Please don't worry about that; there is a copy in the AdaIC archives:

http://archive.adaic.com/ase/index.html

This is a copy of Dirk's FTP site, except of course it is available through 
HTTP, not FTP, so you can browse it and find it from Google.

There isn't much chance of AdaIC disappearing as long as Ada exists, so I 
wouldn't worry about it disappearing. (We have it in the archives as it has 
not been maintained for years, so there is some stale stuff in it, like 
ancient versions of GNAT.)

                                    Randy.

Re: HELP TO BEGINNER (PAL)

[Dirk Craeynest]

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In article <go9vet$upm$1@munin.nbi.dk>,
Randy Brukardt <randy@rrsoftware.com> wrote:
>"Hibou57 (Yannick Duch�ne)" <yannick_duchene@yahoo.fr> wrote in message 
>news:4d141211-8950-496d-9787-eb0db24aced6@x38g2000yqj.googlegroups.com...
>> Here is the link to the *partial* mirror : 
>> ftp://ftp.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/pub/Ada-Belgium/mirrors/pal/
>>
>> I gonna make a backup right now, before this one disappears the same
>> way as all the others ...

Note that the latest version of the *full* Public Ada Library is available
at <ftp://ftp.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/pub/Ada-Belgium/cdrom/index.html>.

>Please don't worry about that; there is a copy in the AdaIC archives:
>http://archive.adaic.com/ase/index.html
>
>This is a copy of Dirk's FTP site, except of course it is available through 
>HTTP, not FTP, so you can browse it and find it from Google.

The copy at the Ada-Belgium server dates from the period when distributing
"big files" via http was a no-no, and people insisted that ftp should be
used for that instead.  Since then the situation changed "somewhat", so
making a copy available via http is no longer a problem and in fact may be
preferable for many reasons, as stated by Randy.

Nevertheless, I received reports from people who appreciate the
availability via ftp, e.g. because they have only ftp- and no http-
access, so I intend to keep it online as long as cs.kuleuven.be offers
an ftp-service.

Dirk
Dirk.Craeynest@cs.kuleuven.be (for Ada-Belgium/-Europe/SIGAda/WG9 mail)

Re: HELP TO BEGINNER (PAL)

[Randy Brukardt]

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"Dirk Craeynest" <dirk@heli.cs.kuleuven.be.> wrote in message 
news:goh8ja$md0$1@ikarus.fw.belnet.be...
> In article <go9vet$upm$1@munin.nbi.dk>,
> Randy Brukardt <randy@rrsoftware.com> wrote:
>>"Hibou57 (Yannick Duch�ne)" <yannick_duchene@yahoo.fr> wrote in message
>>news:4d141211-8950-496d-9787-eb0db24aced6@x38g2000yqj.googlegroups.com...
>>> Here is the link to the *partial* mirror :
>>> ftp://ftp.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/pub/Ada-Belgium/mirrors/pal/
>>>
>>> I gonna make a backup right now, before this one disappears the same
>>> way as all the others ...
>
> Note that the latest version of the *full* Public Ada Library is available
> at <ftp://ftp.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/pub/Ada-Belgium/cdrom/index.html>.
>
>>Please don't worry about that; there is a copy in the AdaIC archives:
>>http://archive.adaic.com/ase/index.html
>>
>>This is a copy of Dirk's FTP site, except of course it is available 
>>through
>>HTTP, not FTP, so you can browse it and find it from Google.
>
> The copy at the Ada-Belgium server dates from the period when distributing
> "big files" via http was a no-no, and people insisted that ftp should be
> used for that instead.  Since then the situation changed "somewhat", so
> making a copy available via http is no longer a problem and in fact may be
> preferable for many reasons, as stated by Randy.
>
> Nevertheless, I received reports from people who appreciate the
> availability via ftp, e.g. because they have only ftp- and no http-
> access, so I intend to keep it online as long as cs.kuleuven.be offers
> an ftp-service.

It's good to have both. I agree that it is better to get large files by FTP. 
The main problem with having the whole thing hosted on FTP is that it makes 
it hard to browse the HTML index pages. So the best possible solution would 
be to have it split between HTTP and FTP -- small files and indexes in HTTP 
and large files in FTP -- but as that is a lot of work, I didn't want to 
bother with it.

Probably the best approach is to find the files that you need in the AdaIC 
archives and then download them from Dirk's FTP site if they are large. 
(Filezilla works well for accessing FTP sites.)

                                   Randy.