From: Samuel Tardieu <sam@ada.eu.org>
To: comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org
Subject: Re: Windows CE?
Date: 22 Sep 2001 15:41:34 +0200
Date: 2001-09-22T15:41:34+02:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <mailman.1001166140.10550.comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5ee5b646.0109220421.291fd832@posting.google.com> (dewar@gnat.com's message of "22 Sep 2001 05:21:54 -0700")
>>>>> "Robert" == Robert Dewar <dewar@gnat.com> writes:
Robert> The nice thing about Free Software is that you don't have to
Robert> start from scratch, you can create such a product using GNAT
Robert> as the starting point. This has been tried before and failed,
Robert> but if you know how to make it work, by all means give it a
Robert> try.
Are you talking only about Windows CE? New *successful* ports of GNAT
have been achieved by volunteers:
- PowerPC/GNU/Linux
- Sparc/GNU/Linux
- ia32/FreeBSD
- ia32/NetBSD
and probably others.
However, those four platforms are running free software OSes, and are
often run by competent hackers and/or seriously motivated computer
hobbyists (and often on machines rescued from trash).
WindowsCE not being free software and running only on very recent
devices, I am not sure that a similarly motivated userbase would be
able to drive and maintain a port. Especially with LinuxCE being
around.
Sam
--
Samuel Tardieu -- sam@ada.eu.org
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Thread overview: 64+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-09-19 10:30 Windows CE? John McCabe
2001-09-20 14:56 ` Robert Dewar
2001-09-21 9:30 ` John McCabe
2001-09-21 14:13 ` Stephen Leake
2001-09-21 15:01 ` John McCabe
2001-09-22 4:12 ` Robert Dewar
2001-09-22 6:59 ` Robert C. Leif, Ph.D.
2001-09-22 12:21 ` Robert Dewar
2001-09-22 13:41 ` Samuel Tardieu [this message]
2001-09-24 14:55 ` Marin David Condic
2001-09-24 18:13 ` The Hobby Lobby was " Richard Riehle
2001-09-24 18:55 ` Marin David Condic
2001-09-25 10:49 ` John McCabe
2001-09-25 14:27 ` Marin David Condic
2001-09-25 16:41 ` Wes Groleau
2001-09-26 12:56 ` John McCabe
2001-09-26 16:50 ` Wes Groleau
2001-09-26 18:17 ` Ted Dennison
2001-09-26 19:13 ` tmoran
2001-09-26 19:39 ` Wes Groleau
2001-09-26 19:49 ` Ted Dennison
2001-09-26 19:55 ` Marin David Condic
2001-09-26 21:17 ` Ted Dennison
2001-09-27 13:44 ` Marin David Condic
2001-09-27 15:07 ` Gary Scott
2001-09-27 15:37 ` Marin David Condic
2001-09-28 13:23 ` Ted Dennison
2001-09-28 13:45 ` Marin David Condic
2001-09-30 14:28 ` Nils Kassube
2001-10-01 1:42 ` Gary Scott
2001-10-01 14:14 ` Marin David Condic
2001-10-01 15:05 ` Nils Kassube
2001-09-29 3:10 ` Robert Dewar
2001-09-28 15:49 ` Gary Scott
2001-09-28 17:28 ` Marin David Condic
2001-09-28 19:27 ` David Starner
2001-10-01 14:23 ` Marin David Condic
2001-10-12 21:01 ` Stefan Skoglund
2001-10-13 1:43 ` David Starner
2001-09-28 15:56 ` Chad Robert Meiners
2001-09-28 17:33 ` Marin David Condic
2001-09-28 20:28 ` Aristophon
2001-09-28 20:15 ` Pascal Obry
2001-09-28 22:30 ` GNAT ftp sites/mirrors ... was:The Hobby Lobby Aristophon
2001-09-29 3:09 ` Robert Dewar
2001-09-29 18:34 ` The Hobby Lobby was Windows CE? Chad R. Meiners
2001-09-27 7:13 ` Robert C. Leif, Ph.D.
2001-09-27 13:51 ` DuckE
2001-09-30 23:17 ` Richard Riehle
2001-09-26 2:18 ` Robert Dewar
2001-09-26 4:52 ` David Botton
2001-09-28 1:15 ` Robert Dewar
2001-09-26 12:56 ` John McCabe
2001-09-28 1:20 ` Robert Dewar
2001-09-28 8:33 ` John McCabe
2001-09-28 14:07 ` Marin David Condic
2001-09-28 15:12 ` Larry Kilgallen
2001-09-28 15:35 ` Marin David Condic
2001-09-28 15:50 ` John McCabe
2001-09-24 20:28 ` David Botton
2001-09-24 21:42 ` Richard Riehle
2001-09-24 23:22 ` David Botton
2001-09-21 14:59 ` Ted Dennison
2001-09-24 9:16 ` John McCabe
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