Re: A known planned date fora GNAT 4.7 or 4.8?

["Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)" <yannick_duchene@yahoo.fr>]

Do you know if there will be any GNAT 4.8 On Ubuntu 12.04 (LTS) in any  
future? Seems to stay with GCC 4.6 so far, not even GCC 4.7. I know I can  
install a GCC 4.8 snapshot (what I did, and it works fine), but it's not  
OK as a build dependency of a source package I guess, and I'm planning to  
have a test publishing a tiny simple application, the core in Ada 2012 and  
the UI in Vala. The publication process requires a source package, and I  
don't want to use GNAT specific features with a GNAT 4.6 which does not  
properly handles Ada 2012 (ex. Static_Predicate is not recognized, nor  
some part of the Ada 2012 iteration features).

Note I'm not begging for anything, just seeking for what I can expect and  
can't expect in the future. If I can't expect a GNAT 4.8 before the next  
LTS, I won't mind, and will just fall-back to Ada 2005.

Le Thu, 18 Oct 2012 21:26:21 +0200, Ludovic Brenta  
<ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org> a écrit:

> Yannick Duchêne writes:
>> Not a request for anything, except information. I had a little thing
>> to do, which I wanted to do with Ada, preferably with the new Ada 2012
>> iterator interface, to practice with it, but GNAT 4.6, which is the
>> one coming with Ubuntu Precise does not support it. So I would like to
>> know if I would better wait more or less to later start with the Ada
>> 2012 iterators, or if I would better not wait at all and start without
>> it (I though the GNAT coming with Precise, to which I recently
>> switched, was fully Ada 2012). That's why I would like to know about
>> any known date. If it's near enough to me, I will wait, otherwise, I
>> will resume without it.
>
> I recommend you not wait for gnat-4.7 or gnat-4.8, sorry.  Also if you
> want to minimize the waiting, switch to Debian unstable because gnat-4.7
> will appear there first.
>
> I've started work on gnat-4.7 but it will be some time before it is in a
> state where I can upload to unstable.  How much time, I cannot tell as I
> do all of this in my spare time.  Even then it is possible that I decide
> that gnat-4.8 will be the next default compiler in Debian 8 "Jessie".
> I'll make that decision around March 2013, after GCC 4.8 is released.
>


-- 
“Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semi-colons.” [1]
“Structured Programming supports the law of the excluded muddle.” [1]
[1]: Epigrams on Programming — Alan J. — P. Yale University