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,b50bc6538a649497 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2000-11-19 16:16:26 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!isdnet!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newshub2.home.com!news.home.com!news1.frmt1.sfba.home.com.POSTED!not-for-mail From: tmoran@acm.org Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada student homework ? References: <8v9l58$210$1@nnrp1.deja.com> X-Newsreader: Tom's custom newsreader Message-ID: Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 00:16:24 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.20.190.201 X-Complaints-To: abuse@home.net X-Trace: news1.frmt1.sfba.home.com 974679384 24.20.190.201 (Sun, 19 Nov 2000 16:16:24 PST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2000 16:16:24 PST Organization: Excite@Home - The Leader in Broadband http://home.com/faster Xref: supernews.google.com comp.lang.ada:2244 Date: 2000-11-20T00:16:24+00:00 List-Id: > > Is there a release sequence of > > GtkAda versions that have been developed and tested with > > multiple Ada Windows, and > > instead tie you to ACT's Ada compiler? > > That's a bit confused, but I assume you are asking whether > there are GtkAda versions that work with various Ada 95 > compilers. I think your newsreader may be broken. The sentence said: "Is there a release sequence of GtkAda versions that have been developed and tested with multiple Ada compilers? Or does GtkAda free you from being tied to MS Windows, and instead tie you to ACT's Ada compiler?" Is there? Not "anyone can ...", or "... has been at least fiddling with GtkAda,", but "Is there a release sequence of GtkAda versions that have been developed and tested with multiple Ada compilers?" >since CLAW is not open, you have to do all the work of making >sure it works on multiple Ada compilers. In the case of GtkAda, >different vendors can distribute that work among themselves. CLAW users have full source code and there is certainly no more impediment to them making it work on some new fifth or sixth Ada compiler, than to users making GtkAda work on a second or third or fourth existing or new Ada compiler. In fact, if a new Ada compiler does not show any bugs or weirdnesses that need workarounds, porting CLAW may need no changes at all! It is true that we have taken it upon ourselves to do that work for CLAW; I'm happy to hear that ACT has "been happy to cooperate with them [Rational] on this [porting GtkAda]." To return to the previous topic, I trust we agree that GtkAda's portability across OSes sometimes, but not always, exceeds its disadvantages in missing functionality under Windows and its portability problems across Ada compiler vendors.