Ada / Linux

Ada / Linux

[dbotton]

I just started participating in this forum, and saw a number of references to
some sort of Linux/Ada development group.

Does such a group exist? What is their URL?

Are there any public repositories of public domain code examples (not
necessarily whole programs or components)? Perhaps sorted by subject and
covering basics like using tasking to more complex like how to print with ada
95 and win32. If not, I would like to start one. Is any one interested in
helping.

David Botton

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Re: Ada / Linux

[Matthew Heaney]

dbotton@hotmail.com writes:

> I just started participating in this forum, and saw a number of references to
> some sort of Linux/Ada development group.
> 
> Does such a group exist? What is their URL?
> 
> Are there any public repositories of public domain code examples (not
> necessarily whole programs or components)? Perhaps sorted by subject and
> covering basics like using tasking to more complex like how to print with ada
> 95 and win32. If not, I would like to start one. Is any one interested in
> helping.

Here's info about the list you were asking about.

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Following my question on the GNAT chat mailing list whether there is
some interest on setting up a somewhat more organized effort to support
GNAT specifically for Linux, quite a number of people have signaled
their interest to contribute.

We will probably set up our own source tree repository and publish
patches and updated binary releases frequently to bridge the rather
long time between ACT releases.

For the moment I have set up a Web page

  http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/linux-ada/

where we can publish our patches, packets, and easy to install binary
releases for Linux. Mike Feldman has offered that we can use his
gnatlist@seas.gwu.edu mailing list to coordinate the effort, so I
suggest that you all joint the list (see the web page for subscription
details).

One of the first things that I can contribute is a patch that adds
UTF-8/Unicode support to GNAT.

If you are interested in helping in any way towards making
Linux the perfect Ada development environment, please have a look
at the above Web page, join the gnatlist mailing list as described
there and send us there your suggestions and what you can
contribute.

Markus

-- 
Markus G. Kuhn, Security Group, Computer Lab, Cambridge University, UK
email: mkuhn at acm.org,  home page: <http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/>
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