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: Thu, 13 Nov 2014 16:14:50 -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> NNTP-Posting-Host: 24-196-82-226.static.mdsn.wi.charter.com X-Trace: loke.gir.dk 1415916891 12633 24.196.82.226 (13 Nov 2014 22:14:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@jacob-sparre.dk NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2014 22:14:51 +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:23247 Date: 2014-11-13T16:14:50-06:00 List-Id: "George Curioso" wrote in message news:m41nld$2rh$1@speranza.aioe.org... > On 2014-11-12, 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 $500 for the professional version. See www.rrsoftware.com. >> (Disclaimer for new people here, I'm a co-founder and primary author of >> Janus/Ada, so I'm a bit biased. :-) > > It's hard to tell from your website exactly which *NIX are supported. If > you > could clarify that it might be helpful. Many people are no longer using > Windows and or prefer coding on UNIX or UNIX-like platforms as I'm sure > you know. > > Will it run on Linux, Solaris (x86 or SPARC), FreeBSD, etc? 32 bits or 64? > I > downloaded your test executables (I think they were old a.out) years ago > and > I couldn't get them to work on anything I had running at the time. > >>> Personally I wouldn't mind paying a few 100$ 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 ;-) Practically, the toolchain is Windows-only at this point. We don't have anything for Linux or FreeBSD, it wouldn't be hard to create such a thing, but it's important get one thing right before moving on to other things. When I redo the website, I'll remove the Unix references (since I recycled the computer that supported those versions this spring in a tax-saving move, I couldn't actually provide one even if someone wanted it). Of course, the source code is still in our version control, so it could be regenerated if necessary -- but it hasn't been updated since 1997. Randy.