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=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!mx02.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!gandalf.srv.welterde.de!news.jacob-sparre.dk!loke.jacob-sparre.dk!pnx.dk!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Randy Brukardt" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: What exactly is the licensing situation with GNAT? Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2014 20:10:39 -0600 Organization: Jacob Sparre Andersen Research & Innovation Message-ID: References: <87fvdr2vdv.fsf@adaheads.sparre-andersen.dk> <54609F34.4080201@spam.spam> <35f01472-3510-4f67-8765-006fa8591c35@googlegroups.com> <9tc8w.73007$ZT5.37595@fx07.iad> <22a3816a-4e89-48f0-a126-dce581781beb@googlegroups.com> <084b1934-9641-425e-85ec-293e0334413e@googlegroups.com> <86bf69c8-eb08-4696-b6c9-3784f5c42213@googlegroups.com> <87389olqie.fsf@ixod.org> <1af12fe7-ddd9-4eec-b8d3-3237d3e1427a@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 24-196-82-226.static.mdsn.wi.charter.com X-Trace: loke.gir.dk 1415844640 11806 24.196.82.226 (13 Nov 2014 02:10:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@jacob-sparre.dk NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2014 02:10:40 +0000 (UTC) X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.5931 X-RFC2646: Format=Flowed; Original X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.6157 Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:23211 Date: 2014-11-12T20:10:39-06:00 List-Id: "Britt" wrote in message news:1af12fe7-ddd9-4eec-b8d3-3237d3e1427a@googlegroups.com... > 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.