Re: What exactly is the licensing situation with GNAT?

["Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>]

"Britt" <britt.snodgrass@gmail.com> wrote in message 
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> On Wednesday, November 12, 2014 5:47:24 PM UTC-5, Randy Brukardt wrote:
>
>>
>> You could of course use a different, commercial Ada compiler, rather than
>> insisting on GNAT. At least Janus/Ada still costs $195 for the personal
>> version and $500 for the professional version. See www.rrsoftware.com.
>
> Randy,
>
> I remember buying one of your early versions of of Janus Ada for $99. It 
> might have been around 1989 or so. I might buy the current personal 
> edition if I could be sure it would work on Windows 7 or 8.1.
>
> Your website appears a bit dated with the references to Windows 95/NT and 
> Rational Apex NT
>(which I used in the past before Rational killed it).

I've been holding off on updating the website until all of the Windows 7 
issues are cleared.

> What is the status of Janus Ada and CLAW with regard to Windows 7 & 8?

Windows 8 == Vista to me; I'm waiting for Windows 10 as a system that tried 
to make the desktop a second-class citizen is near-worthless for 
programming. So no testing there. (Tom Moran reported that everything works 
the same there as it does on Windows 7; I don't think there are any 
additional issues, but as I said, I didn't try them.)

As far as Windows 7 goes, there are a few minor problems that have so far 
kept the compiler in beta. The main one is that the uninstaller doesn't work 
(I can't seem to convince Windows that it should have the permissions to 
uninstall, even when run explicitly as an administrator). The minor one 
(considering that it is obsolete even if it works) is that the GUI 
programming environment doesn't work at all; you'd have to use some other 
editor. (Most people prefer to do that anyway, but it really ought to work; 
to do that, it will have to be totally replaced, something I don't have time 
for right now.)

The Claw binding and Claw programs work on Windows 7, so far as I can tell 
via testing. The Claw Builder comes up with a white screen for some reason 
on Windows 7, so it isn't usable right now on that system. (I'm guessing 
that there is a deadlock situation in the way Claw writes the overlay, but 
it will take some intensive testing to figure out the cause.) A more minor 
problem is that the help files have to be found manually every time you open 
them, for some reason Windows 7 can't remember where they are.

Anyway, the beta works on Windows 7, with some glitches. Once the glitches 
are gone, I'll update the web site, too.

                                        Randy.