Re: [announcement] SYSAPI and SYSSVC for Windows

[Ludovic Brenta <ludovic.brenta@insalien.org>]

"Ekkehard Morgenstern" <ekkehard.morgenstern@onlinehome.de> writes:

> I could modify GNAT if I get the source and a proper compilation environment
> for it. :)

The sources are available[1] for you to modify freely as you will.
That is what makes GNAT Free Software.  As for the proper compilation
environment, there are several Free operating systems available to
choose from, all of which are vastly superior (IMHO) to Windows.

[1] ftp://ftp.cs.nyu.edu/pub/gnat

> I suspect GNAT's Windows support hasn't been updated for a while, and 
> somebody's got to do that. :)

Nah.  Somebody's got to switch to a Free operating system, thereby
becoming Free instead of Captive of one OS supplier.  As long as you
program specifically for Windows, you are Captive.

-- 
Ludovic Brenta.