Re: PolyORB 1.1r

[Bruce Conroy <bruceconroy@earthlink.net>]

Laurent Pautet wrote:

> Martin Krischik <krischik@users.sourceforge.net> writes:
> 
>> Ludovic Brenta wrote:
>>
>> The problem I found with Florist, Glade and ASIS is that most ACT Tools
>> compile with -gnatg which implies -gnatwa, -gnatwe and-gnaty.
> 
> This is not so time consuming. Edit configure.in. Find these
> flags. Remove them, regenerate configure (with autoconf/automake). And
> that's it.
> 
> It will take you less than one minute.
> 
> --
> --  Laurent

A little background. I have been an Ada partisan since 1985 or so. I moved
many thousand lines of code from Ada 83 to Ada 95 with minor problems. I
have used the same code on Windows, Solaris and Linux. I have also moved
many lines of code from one C or C++ compiler to another, and cursed
Kernigham, Ritchie and Soustrup every time. Ada was portable.

I am starting a new project where CORBA seemed like the solution. I
downloaded AdaBroker and compiled it with GNAT 3.14p (Debian Sarge). I
needed another system to test the networking, and my test system is Fedora
Core 2, gcc 3.3.3-7 (the cutting edge as of May 18.) AdaBroker failed. I
sent a complaint, and was told "AdaBroker is obsolete, use PolyOrb." I
tried and found it won't compile under either gnat 3.14p or gcc 3.3.3-7. I
don't want to spend my time debugging tools needed to get my work done.
What has happened to the advantage Ada had over C/C++??

blc