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!border3.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!goblin1!goblin.stu.neva.ru!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx05.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "J-P. Rosen" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Gnat 2013 is out! Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2013 11:35:52 +0200 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: <663a8eb1-8c7f-4c90-9a90-0a44f2123e67@googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2013 09:31:08 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx05.eternal-september.org; posting-host="20b438b71c4ab42945ab51e56d965d0f"; logging-data="19845"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+MlXi8ru/n8LIDV868b1Xw" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130509 Thunderbird/17.0.6 In-Reply-To: <663a8eb1-8c7f-4c90-9a90-0a44f2123e67@googlegroups.com> Cancel-Lock: sha1:S3DOF3YfWIiQvo1wzPVbAXQi1nQ= X-Enigmail-Version: 1.5.1 X-Original-Bytes: 2314 Xref: number.nntp.dca.giganews.com comp.lang.ada:181836 Date: 2013-06-11T11:35:52+02:00 List-Id: Le 11/06/2013 09:52, Maciej Sobczak a écrit : > And still the Windows package for GNAT (+GPS) comes without AWS > already installed. > > The AWS installation breaks GPS (that is, after make install of AWS > the GPS program crashes at the start). I had to reinstall GPS after > that to get it working again. And still I would like to encourage my > friend on Windows to try AWS as a way to get introduced to Ada and I > don't want to force him to install Cygwin. He has some website > development experience and I'm sure that AWS would be a jaw-dropping > show for him, but under one condition: It Must Work Out Of The Box. > I don't think it should be included with the basic GNAT (I think the "build you own download package" is nice), but I do agree that it should work out of the box, preferably with an installer for Windows user. By all means, please complain to AdaCore. I already did, and I will do it again for GPL2013, but only if many people complain will they consider it. -- J-P. Rosen Adalog 2 rue du Docteur Lombard, 92441 Issy-les-Moulineaux CEDEX Tel: +33 1 45 29 21 52, Fax: +33 1 45 29 25 00 http://www.adalog.fr