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From: George Curioso <curiousgeorge@thezoo.net>
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Subject: Re: What exactly is the licensing situation with GNAT?
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2014 07:46:53 +0000 (UTC)
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On 2014-11-12, Randy Brukardt <randy@rrsoftware.com> 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. 
> (Disclaimer for new people here, I'm a co-founder and primary author of 
> Janus/Ada, so I'm a bit biased. :-)

It's hard to tell from your website exactly which *NIX are supported. If you
could clarify that it might be helpful. Many people are no longer using
Windows and or prefer coding on UNIX or UNIX-like platforms as I'm sure you know.

Will it run on Linux, Solaris (x86 or SPARC), FreeBSD, etc? 32 bits or 64? I
downloaded your test executables (I think they were old a.out) years ago and
I couldn't get them to work on anything I had running at the time.

>> Personally I wouldn't mind paying a few 100$ right now for a license that 
>> would allow me to write closed source applications even if I get no 
>> support or just some way to report bugs which may or may not be fixed 
>> later.
>
> See note about Janus/Ada above. ;-)

Please clarify exactly what platforms and Ada versions are supported. I've
heard (read) good things about your toolchain but your website doesn't help ;-)

George