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=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,3e26dfa741e64e5f X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Path: g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!news.glorb.com!news.banetele.no!news.hacking.dk!news.jacob-sparre.dk!pnx.dk!not-for-mail From: Jacob Sparre Andersen Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: GNAT GPL 2005 Edition is now available Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2005 20:25:01 +0200 Organization: Jacob's private Usenet server Message-ID: References: <432919be$0$10539$4d4eb98e@read.news.fr.uu.net> <1126773856.876636.265130@g49g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <1126794444.071827.191320@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com> <877jdecrhj.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de> <877jde2vyx.fsf@ludovic-brenta.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: 80.241.165.47 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: jacob-sparre.dk 1127067930 17107 80.241.165.47 (18 Sep 2005 18:25:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: sparre@jacob-sparre.dk NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2005 18:25:30 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.110004 (No Gnus v0.4) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:3QQ0LvtuP6fAePxTsVB1zVrjbVs= Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:4878 Date: 2005-09-18T20:25:01+02:00 List-Id: Ludovic Brenta wrote: > Nothing is 100% certain at this point, except that there is no hurry > to decide on a definitive Ada compiler for Debian Etch. However, I > sense that some people are in a hurry to move away from gnat 3.15p. > Am I correct in this? Not really. I miss ASIS and have the impression that tasking doesn't work quite as it should on my Debian/PPC workstation, but things do basically seem to work. > BTW, how many people here use gnat-3.4 or gnat-4.0 regularly? I normally don't use either, but I could give them a shot with some critical (for my work) code, to see how they perform. > If gnat-3.4 is chosen, its future availability in Etch is > guaranteed, so I can start a transition of the existing Debian > packages soon (e.g. October-November 2005). No matter what, this > transition will take time and effort on my part. > > If gnat-4.0 is chosen, then I'll probably wait until Matthias and > the Debian GCC maintainers decide on whether or not to move to 4.1, > and only then will I start the transition. This places the > transition in the May-June 2006 timeframe. It sounds like it will make life easier for you (and those who get around to help you), if we go for gnat-3.4 rather than gnat-4.0. If everything else balances, this should also be taken into account. Jacob -- �When Roman engineers built a bridge, they had to stand under it while the first legion marched across. If programmers today worked under similar ground rules, they might well find themselves getting much more interested in Ada!� -- Robert Dewar