Re: gnat GPL 2010 or gcc/ada?

[Simon Clubley <clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP>]

On 2011-03-04, Nasser M. Abbasi <nma@12000.org> wrote:
> Basic question: I've always been confused about which "Ada" to use.
>
> If one wants to write some program in Ada for school,
> and want to use Ada. Should one download gcc which has
> Ada in it, or download gnat GPL 2010?
>
> Can someone, using simple words, explain which one of
> the above should one install? For example, gnatmake comes
> with both gcc/ada and gnat GPL 2010?  Should one use gnatmake
> or the new gpl configuration files to build an Ada program?
>

As well as the already mentioned GPL versus GMGPL issue, you need to
consider if you are intending to perform any embedded or cross compiler
work with Ada.

For example, RTEMS and AVR-Ada both use the FSF version as their base
while MaRTE appears to need the AdaCore version.

My personal preference is for the FSF version (because of it's GMGPL
license) even when I am not using RTEMS or targeting a AVR processor.

Simon.

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