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=0.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,2e91a32061bde112 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: aidan@skinner.demon.co.uk (Aidan Skinner) Subject: Re: JAVA and ADA JGNAT Date: 2000/01/26 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 578199319 X-NNTP-Posting-Host: skinner.demon.co.uk:158.152.76.219 References: <862sv5$sug$1@pirates.Armstrong.EDU> <862t3o$9aa1@news.cis.okstate.edu> <86k8r6$alp$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <86kpbu$aik1@news.cis.okstate.edu> <86la8r$519$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <877lgxuquu.fsf@deneb.cygnus.argh.org> <86mqi6$6dd$1@nnrp1.deja.com> X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net X-Trace: news.demon.co.uk 948955249 nnrp-07:23437 NO-IDENT skinner.demon.co.uk:158.152.76.219 Organization: Insert witty pun here User-Agent: slrn/0.9.5.7 (UNIX) Reply-To: aidan@skinner.demon.co.uk Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-01-26T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: On Wed, 26 Jan 2000 17:17:43 GMT, Pascal Martin 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. http://www.skinner.demon.co.uk/aidan/