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From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
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Subject: Re: "Ada for Automation" Boutique
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2015 10:19:40 +0100
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"Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> writes:

> On Wed, 16 Sep 2015 08:50:49 +0100, Simon Wright wrote:
>
>> Luke A. Guest <laguest@archeia.com> writes:
>> 
>>> slos <new.stephane.los@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> By the way, someone asked (I think it was Bjorn) if "Ada for
>>>> Automation" could be used on a Raspberry Pi. I can confirm since a
>>>> friend has lent me his own Model B. But it is a no-brainer since
>>>> Debian based. Also Gnoga was reported to work on it.
>>>
>>> I'm surprised this still comes up considering I wrote a getting
>>> started with Ada on RPI in MagPI.
>> 
>> You or I might expect that 'Ada for Automation', Gnoga would work on
>> an RPi (though mine was still on wheezy, GCC 4.6); others might need
>> convincing.
>
> Why 4.6? Debian testing has 4.9 and if you switch to Fedora you could
> have GNAT 5.x for Raspberry Pi.

Mine *was* on wheezy; not obvious enough how to upgrade just the Ada
component, and MCUs more interesting, so passed it on.