RE: JGNAT status??? (Volunteers?)

["Robert C. Leif" <rleif@rleif.com>]

From: Bob Leif
To: António Vargas et al.
You might try another approach. Ask how many of us would pay some
reasonable amount, $50 to $100 for a copy of JGNAT. To add to my heresy,
I would suggest a version of JGNAT that worked with Microsoft's
intermediate language. One very useful old motto is, "If you can't beat
them, join them.

Although Java is not much more than brilliant marketing by SUN, the
creation of microprocessors based on P codes or their successor, J
codes, is a very good approach. The use of J code engines on retarded
chips also makes sense.

-----Original Message-----
From: comp.lang.ada-admin@ada.eu.org
[mailto:comp.lang.ada-admin@ada.eu.org] On Behalf Of António Vargas
Sent: Monday, August 12, 2002 6:24 AM
To: comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org
Subject: Re: JGNAT status??? (Volunteers?)

Hi


  Its a shame that jgnat is dying.

  Are there skilled (not pseudo skilled) voluntears in Java VM 
and/or Gnat/JGnat internals for a sourceforge project based in 
jgnat1.1p.


  This is just a question not a compromise.
  
  Without critical mass nothing can be done.


  
António Vargas
Barcelos - Portugal.


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dewar@gnat.com (Robert Dewar) wrote in message
news:<5ee5b646.0208030636.2a4b1240@posting.google.com>...
> "Dr. Michael Paus" <paus@ib-paus.com> wrote in message
news:<3D4B982D.7010100@ib-paus.com>...
> > Yes, a new public version of the current JGNAT sources 
> > could be great.
> 
> We have no plans for any further work on JGNAT
> 
> 
> ?> if it is true that a version exists which runs on Java 
> > 1.3+.
> . 
> It is false. There were indeed filed bugs in this area, but
> they were never solved.
> 
> > Maybe we can convince ACT to consider
> > this.
> 
> What is "this"? Doing more work on JGNAT? That's not going
> to happen. The sources are out there, the first task would
> be to update them to be compatible with the GNAT 5 sources
> at gnu.org. That might be an interesting project, but it is
> not something that Ada Core will be able to help with.
> 
> Robert Dewar
> Ada Core Technologies