From: aidan@skinner.demon.co.uk (Aidan Skinner)
Subject: Re: JAVA and ADA JGNAT
Date: 2000/01/26
Date: 2000-01-26T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <slrn88v0f9.22t.aidan@skinner.demon.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: X_Fj4.425$0o4.13328@cmnws01.we.mediaone.net
On Wed, 26 Jan 2000 17:17:43 GMT, Pascal Martin
<pascal.martin@iname.com.nospam> wrote:
>This is the reverse, actually: GNAT is very difficult to build. IMHO GNAT
>would have tremendeously benefited from an open development model,
This is one of the things that the ALT project, Juergen in particular,
has been trying to fix. Installing gnat on a linux machine from
tarballs can be _painful_, from rpms/debs it's painless.
>No such thing seems to happen to GNAT. I suspect ACT is protecting its
>business using FUD and obscurity: "if you try to build your compiler yourself,
If you've got a real problem with this, and want to fix it, well, you
can get the source code (it's under the GPL remember) and fork it.
Whether or not this would be helpful is something that you've got to
consider.
- Aidan
--
Little Willy was a chemist, Little Willy is no more,
What he thought was H2O, Was H2SO4.
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Thread overview: 61+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-01-18 0:00 JAVA and ADA JGNAT Mark Burge
2000-01-18 0:00 ` David Starner
2000-01-19 0:00 ` Ed Falis
2000-01-19 0:00 ` David Starner
2000-01-19 0:00 ` Ed Falis
2000-01-25 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-01-25 0:00 ` Preben Randhol
2000-01-25 0:00 ` David Starner
2000-01-25 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-01-26 0:00 ` David Starner
2000-01-26 0:00 ` Alfred Hilscher
2000-01-26 0:00 ` Florian Weimer
2000-01-26 0:00 ` Gautier
2000-01-26 0:00 ` Florian Weimer
2000-01-26 0:00 ` David Starner
2000-02-05 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-01-26 0:00 ` Jean-Marc Bourguet
2000-01-26 0:00 ` Pascal Martin
2000-01-26 0:00 ` Aidan Skinner [this message]
2000-01-26 0:00 ` David Starner
2000-01-27 0:00 ` Jean-Marc Bourguet
2000-01-27 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-01-27 0:00 ` Chris Morgan
2000-01-28 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-01-30 0:00 ` Stefan Skoglund
2000-01-31 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-02-05 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-01-28 0:00 ` Florian Weimer
2000-01-31 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-02-05 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-02-05 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-01-27 0:00 ` Florian Weimer
2000-01-27 0:00 ` Pascal Obry
2000-02-05 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-01-26 0:00 ` Florian Weimer
2000-02-05 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-01-26 0:00 ` Aidan Skinner
2000-01-27 0:00 ` Florian Weimer
2000-02-05 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-01-31 0:00 ` Pascal F. Martin
2000-01-31 0:00 ` reason67
2000-01-31 0:00 ` Preben Randhol
2000-02-05 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-02-05 0:00 ` Chris Morgan
2000-02-06 0:00 ` Pascal Martin
2000-02-06 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-02-06 0:00 ` Aidan Skinner
2000-02-07 0:00 ` Pascal Martin
2000-02-08 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-02-11 0:00 ` Wes Groleau
2000-01-26 0:00 ` Preben Randhol
2000-01-26 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-02-05 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-01-26 0:00 ` David Starner
2000-01-26 0:00 ` Preben Randhol
2000-01-26 0:00 ` David Starner
2000-01-27 0:00 ` Preben Randhol
2000-02-05 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-02-05 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-01-19 0:00 ` Gautier
2000-01-19 0:00 ` Preben Randhol
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