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 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,3cb0c0deb57c863d X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public Path: g2news1.google.com!news2.google.com!proxad.net!freenix!enst.fr!not-for-mail From: Laurent Pautet Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: PolyORB 1.1r Date: Wed, 09 Jun 2004 10:25:04 +0200 Organization: ENST, France Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: dorine.enst.fr Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: avanie.enst.fr 1086769504 11257 137.194.160.65 (9 Jun 2004 08:25:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@enst.fr NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2004 08:25:04 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) XEmacs/21.4 (Security Through Obscurity, linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:d064VzCVm8yL+58CsBeokcyWzNc= Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:1287 Date: 2004-06-09T10:25:04+02:00 List-Id: "Dr. Adrian Wrigley" writes: > Can I take an existing Annex E/Glade program and recompile it > with PolyORB? (no modifications needed?) Is there a porting guide? The answer is "yes" an existing Annex E/Glade program works with GNAT/DSA/PolyORB (we pass ACATS for instance) and "no" you cannot port it yourself because you need the patch to GNAT to produce code for PolyORB (and not for GARLIC which is the GLADE ORB). > Is this intended to supersede Glade? Does it do everything > Glade could do, only better? Is PolyORB/DSA suitable in > a "production" system where high reliability is wanted? Yes. It may be integrated in 5.03. Not sure about that. > How does it compare with Glade in terms of speed, complexity, code size, > robustness etc? Almost the same with much more features. For instance, you can make a CORBA program and a DSA program interoperate. Note that PolyORB is also a research project. That is why there are public releases (p) and research releases (r). The customer and public releases are intensively tested on many platforms. There is a strong commitment from AdaCore to support these releases. A research release is a stable snapshot tested on a bunch of platforms. Its main goal is to help people to contribute to this research work. But AdaCore does not support these specific releases (as the testing activity is much lighter). > I currently use Glade, but have been unable to fix a couple of > problems with the implementation, and there don't seem to be > any versions beyond 3.15 on the horizon. This is another point. There has been no public release of GLADE for a long time. But there are professional releases for 3.16 and 5.02. The good news is that the GLADE CVS tree may become soon available. I hope to have a GO before Ada-Europe 2004. So very soon ... Stay tuned! Thank you for patience, -- -- Laurent