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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
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Subject: Re: ANN: Simple Components for Ada v4.20
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2017 10:52:38 +0100
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On 13/03/2017 10:09, G.B. wrote:
> On 12/03/2017 14:16, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
>
>> I am going upgrade tar.exe in my tool-chain to msys2. The version I am
>> using is the latest GNU version and that is year 2003. (:-))
>
> Does Windows, or Microsoft, still offer the pax tool?
> It used to produce portable archives.

I never heard about it. The GNU source was a natural candidate for tar 
and gzip. Unfortunately it has not been updated for more than a decade. 
msys2 does the job. One drawback is that msys2 versions are dynamically 
linked, so one would have to carry a few DLLs with. GNU builds were 
statically linked.

Another rather big and ugly issue is that msys2 and mingw guys 
maliciously drop Windows XP support.

This consequently applies to GNAT. I guess that the new version of 
GtkAda (and thus of GPS) will no more run under Windows XP. I cannot 
tell the effect on all applications built with GNAT, but be ready! (:-()

-- 
Regards,
Dmitry A. Kazakov
http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de