Announce: Debian Policy for Ada, First Edition

Announce: Debian Policy for Ada, First Edition

[Ludovic Brenta]

After receiving comments from several people, I have updated the
Debian Policy for Ada.  I deem it to be worthy of an official First
Edition.  This does not however mean that I will not accept any more
comments or contributions; these are always welcome.  Compared to
Draft 4, here are the changes:


Introduction:
* More contributors acknowdleged.

Choosing the GNAT compiler:
* New section: "History of GNAT".
* GNAT Pro: described the test suite used at ACT.
* GNAT Public releases: referred to the test suite.
* Timeline of GNAT Pro releases: mention the "wavefront" releases.
* Timeline of FSF releases: GCC 3.4.1 released.
* GLADE CVS repository at ACT-Europe mentioned.
* Ada 2005 features in GCC 3.4.

Policy for libraries:
* Turn the chapter into one node per section.
* New section: "Building libraries for reuse".
* New section: "Mandatory files provided by the -dev package", contains
  the former sections about source, object, *.ali, and library files,
  now in subsections.
* Mention recently added support for *.ali files in lintian, linda and
  dh_fixperms.
* Replace @code{} with @file{} in many places.
* Section "Shared libraries" renamed to "Files provided by the shared
  library package".


The Debian Policy for Ada is on my web site in HTML[1] and Texinfo[2]
formats.  In addition, I intend to upload it to Debian if my sponsor
agrees.  This means that it will be available a Debian package named
debian-ada-policy.  This package will include the document in Info,
ASCII and PDF formats in addition to HTML and Texinfo source.

[1] http://users.skynet.be/ludovic.brenta/debian-ada-policy.html
[2] http://users.skynet.be/ludovic.brenta/debian-ada-policy.texi

-- 
Ludovic Brenta.

Re: Announce: Debian Policy for Ada, First Edition

[Björn Persson]

Ludovic Brenta wrote:

> After receiving comments from several people, I have updated the
> Debian Policy for Ada.  I deem it to be worthy of an official First
> Edition.

I read a little out of curiosity and stumbled on three typos:

"althouth"
"sraightforward"
"is is" ("it is")

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                    omb jor ers @sv ge.
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Re: Announce: Debian Policy for Ada, First Edition

[Steve]

A minor note.
In a recent message on the gcc mailing list:

http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2004-07/msg00277.html

Robert Dewar made the request: "please don't abbreviate AdaCore as ACT,
thanks"

Personally I'm used to calling them ACT, but will try to shift to using
AdaCore.

Steve
(The Duck)


"Ludovic Brenta" <ludovic.brenta@insalien.org> wrote in message
news:87658u4f1z.fsf@insalien.org...
> After receiving comments from several people, I have updated the
> Debian Policy for Ada.  I deem it to be worthy of an official First
> Edition.  This does not however mean that I will not accept any more
> comments or contributions; these are always welcome.  Compared to
> Draft 4, here are the changes:
>
>
> Introduction:
> * More contributors acknowdleged.
>
> Choosing the GNAT compiler:
> * New section: "History of GNAT".
> * GNAT Pro: described the test suite used at ACT.
> * GNAT Public releases: referred to the test suite.
> * Timeline of GNAT Pro releases: mention the "wavefront" releases.
> * Timeline of FSF releases: GCC 3.4.1 released.
> * GLADE CVS repository at ACT-Europe mentioned.
> * Ada 2005 features in GCC 3.4.
>
> Policy for libraries:
> * Turn the chapter into one node per section.
> * New section: "Building libraries for reuse".
> * New section: "Mandatory files provided by the -dev package", contains
>   the former sections about source, object, *.ali, and library files,
>   now in subsections.
> * Mention recently added support for *.ali files in lintian, linda and
>   dh_fixperms.
> * Replace @code{} with @file{} in many places.
> * Section "Shared libraries" renamed to "Files provided by the shared
>   library package".
>
>
> The Debian Policy for Ada is on my web site in HTML[1] and Texinfo[2]
> formats.  In addition, I intend to upload it to Debian if my sponsor
> agrees.  This means that it will be available a Debian package named
> debian-ada-policy.  This package will include the document in Info,
> ASCII and PDF formats in addition to HTML and Texinfo source.
>
> [1] http://users.skynet.be/ludovic.brenta/debian-ada-policy.html
> [2] http://users.skynet.be/ludovic.brenta/debian-ada-policy.texi
>
> -- 
> Ludovic Brenta.

Re: Announce: Debian Policy for Ada, First Edition

[Björn Persson]

Steve wrote:

> Robert Dewar made the request: "please don't abbreviate AdaCore as ACT,
> thanks"

Hmm, then I can't help wondering why they chose a name like "ACT Europe" 
for the Paris office.

-- 
Björn Persson                              PGP key A88682FD
                    omb jor ers @sv ge.
                    r o.b n.p son eri nu

Re: Announce: Debian Policy for Ada, First Edition

[Ed Falis]

On Mon, 12 Jul 2004 13:14:08 GMT, Björn Persson <spam-away@nowhere.nil>  
wrote:

> Hmm, then I can't help wondering why they chose a name like "ACT Europe"  
> for the Paris office.
>

That just happened to have come before we decided to use "AdaCore" to  
designate both the European and US contingents.

- Ed