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,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,ea451393a6c97734 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-04-25 04:33:06 PST Path: newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!canoe.uoregon.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!nntp-relay.ihug.net!ihug.co.nz!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!newsfeed.r-kom.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!p3ee3c739.dip.t-dialin.NET!not-for-mail From: Matthias Andree Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Mixing Cygnus & Gnat compilers on the same machine Date: 25 Apr 2001 13:27:57 +0200 Organization: Badly suffering from World Wide Waiting, Inc. Message-ID: References: <9bkd51$530$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <3ADDEEAA.D8F16935@bigfoot.de> <9bkt30$asm$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <3ADE4B03.68BA6651@bigfoot.de> <9bmphh$1jt$1@nh.pace.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: p3ee3c739.dip.t-dialin.net (62.227.199.57) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 988198384 12565744 62.227.199.57 (16 [3969]) X-Orig-Path: lnemma.emma.line.org!nobody User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/20.7 Xref: newsfeed.google.com comp.lang.ada:6917 Date: 2001-04-25T13:27:57+02:00 List-Id: Ted Dennison writes: > I'm not sure what you mean by this. I'm the maintainer of the > SETI@Home Service (see > http://www.telepath.com/dennison/Ted/SETI/SETI_Service.html ), a free > software project written in Ada95 using Gnat. It has quite a few > users, and none of them had to install anything special other than the > program executables themselves. Well, that's a binary package. You end up compiling binaries for all kinds of systems, while most sites have a C compiler installed, be it the vendor's product like sunpro or mipspro, or gcc, or both. > Perhaps you are talking about distributing sources, and not having to > install a separate compiler. For my user-base that's not really much > of an issue, as very few Win2K/NT users have a compiler of any sort > installed, let alone the (non-Gnat) gcc compiler. I understand this is > now typical for propriatary Unixes as well, exept that most users go > ahead and pay extra for the C compiler. I'm usually using FreeBSD, Linux and look after some Solaris boxes at university, Windows (of any kind) is not common. The free unix clones come with gcc, FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE (current release) has gcc 2.95.2, for example. I agree that gcc on Windows is not too common, because many people who want to use gcc go for The Real Thing, some variant of Unix, that is. Less hassle to set up, more efficient in use (Yes, I'm aware of the Cygwin project). If an Ada compiler was part of gcc, it would be pre-installed at many unix sites, thus, Ada would become more widely known. In the meanwhile, I'm going to get Wheeler's Lovelace tutorial on Ada 95 from my local university library. -- Matthias Andree