Re: Ada networking (Adagio)

["Álex R. Mosteo" <alejandro@mosteo.com>]

The current version compiles (in linux) with GPL2012 (gcc4.6 from Ubuntu 
12.04 enters a busy loop, not tested with the saner Debian father), but from 
there to it working... I'm not even sure that the G2 network operates 
anymore.

Alex.

> Shark8 wrote:
> 
>> On Wednesday, August 29, 2012 5:08:08 AM UTC-6, Álex R. Mosteo wrote:
>>> Álex R. Mosteo wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Project file is adagio.gpr. There are others for related projects that
>>> never got anywhere, so I'm leaving these for later.
>> 
>> Alright, I'll grab a copy.
>> 
>>> 
>>> It doesn't compile yet, although I've started fixing things around. I'm
>>> pretty sure I've broken something in the process. Truth is, it relied
>>> too much on Gnat sockets internals that have changed. It was somewhat
>>> nightmarish getting consistent results in Windows and Linux, I remember
>>> now.
>> 
>> Not surprising. I'm not sure if sockets are the best way to handle
>> networking in-general -- though they certainly are the most popular.
> 
> I've used Yarp (mandated in a project) and came to hate it. But I'm pretty
> sure that there are better middlewares out there. From the point of view
> of ready for use with Ada I'm curious about YAMI4 and zeromq.
> 
>>> I'm also having problems with Pragmarc components that return limited
>>> types. I think this is one of the few inconsistencies between Ada95 and
>>> 2005. I'm making these things non-limited, but I'm not sure what are the
>>> implications...
>> 
>> Ah, something to note. I was playing around with the Ada 2012 / 2005
>> functionality in a testing project and found that GNAT (Adacore's free
>> one) allowed my to specify different Ada-versions for spec and body. eg:
>> 
>> Pragma Ada_2005;
>> Package Testing is [...] end Testing;
>> 
>> ------
>> 
>> Pragma Ada_2012;
>> Package Body Testing is [...] end Testing;
>> 
>> or vice-versa.
> 
> Right, I had forgotten about the mode switches too. I'm thinking now that
> I should revert in fact to ada95 mode, which is what existed at the time.
> I'll give it a try.
> 
> Alex.