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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
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Subject: Re: Ada Successor Language
Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2018 09:44:56 +0200
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On 2018-06-04 09:19 AM, Simon Wright wrote:
> Jacob Sparre Andersen <jacob@jacob-sparre.dk> writes:
> 
>> Jeffrey R. Carter wrote:
>>
>>> I haven't had any problems with GPS crashing nor with its
>>> auto-completion features.
>>
>> The version packaged with Debian isn't exactly stable, but if you on
>> have one main per project, it is usable.
>>
>> The binary distribution provided directly by AdaCore works fine, but
>> I've only tried it with compilers distributed by AdaCore.
> 
>  From a Mac perspective, I have to use the AdaCore binary (far too many
> dependencies for me to manage a build myself!), and always with an FSF
> compiler.
> 
> Managing more than one FSF compiler is a little tedious, though (have to
> edit a little script deep inside the application bundle).

Out of curiosity.

Does OS X have a free repository of binary packages to put Ada there? 
Homebrew looks like source only.

Why did nobody port rpm-dnf or dpkg-apt to OS X?

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