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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,MAILING_LIST_MULTI autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,c62a5e526aafd9d4 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-09-22 06:43:04 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeeds.belnet.be!news.belnet.be!fr.usenet-edu.net!usenet-edu.net!enst!enst.fr!not-for-mail From: Samuel Tardieu Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Windows CE? Date: 22 Sep 2001 15:41:34 +0200 Organization: Ada addicts (see http://ada.eu.org/) Sender: comp.lang.ada-admin@ada.eu.org Message-ID: References: <5ee5b646.0109220421.291fd832@posting.google.com> Reply-To: comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: marvin.enst.fr Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: avanie.enst.fr 1001166183 84635 137.194.161.2 (22 Sep 2001 13:43:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@enst.fr NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2001 13:43:03 +0000 (UTC) To: comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org Return-Path: X-Draft-From: ("mail.list.comp.lang.ada" 4230) In-Reply-To: <5ee5b646.0109220421.291fd832@posting.google.com> (dewar@gnat.com's message of "22 Sep 2001 05:21:54 -0700") User-Agent: Gnus/5.090004 (Oort Gnus v0.04) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley) Precedence: special-delivery X-WWW: http://www.rfc1149.net/sam X-Mail-Processing: Sam's procmail tools X-ICQ: 21547599 X-Sam-Laptop: yes Errors-To: comp.lang.ada-admin@ada.eu.org X-BeenThere: comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.4 X-Reply-To: Samuel Tardieu List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: comp.lang.ada mail<->news gateway List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Errors-To: comp.lang.ada-admin@ada.eu.org X-BeenThere: comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:13247 Date: 2001-09-22T15:41:34+02:00 >>>>> "Robert" == Robert Dewar 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