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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,e826c8b10db5191c X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,UTF8 X-Received: by 10.180.24.132 with SMTP id u4mr6573311wif.6.1362161072378; Fri, 01 Mar 2013 10:04:32 -0800 (PST) Path: g1ni40320wig.0!nntp.google.com!proxad.net!feeder1-2.proxad.net!usenet-fr.net!gegeweb.org!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: =?utf-8?Q?Yannick_Duch=C3=AAne_=28Hibou57?= =?utf-8?Q?=29?= Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: A known planned date fora GNAT 4.7 or 4.8? Date: Fri, 01 Mar 2013 19:04:30 +0100 Organization: Ada @ Home Message-ID: References: <87fw5beg4i.fsf@ludovic-brenta.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: ZEnnZm9XHzzImZlIC7G8cQ.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Opera Mail/12.14 (Linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: Quoted-Printable Date: 2013-03-01T19:04:30+01:00 List-Id: 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 ca= n = 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 t= o = have a test publishing a tiny simple application, the core in Ada 2012 a= nd = 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 an= d = 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 = a =C3=A9crit: > Yannick Duch=C3=AAne 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 201= 2 >> 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 t= o >> 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 withou= t >> 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 deci= de > 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. > -- = =E2=80=9CSyntactic sugar causes cancer of the semi-colons.=E2=80=9D [1] =E2=80=9CStructured Programming supports the law of the excluded muddle.= =E2=80=9D [1] [1]: Epigrams on Programming =E2=80=94 Alan J. =E2=80=94 P. Yale Univers= ity