Re: Creating tempfile takes too long: GNAT or Windows bug?

[Preben Randhol <randhol+news@pvv.org>]

Marin David Condic wrote:
> O.K. For a hack, using a compiler dependent package is probably O.K. -
> Assuming for the moment that the environment in question is a Gnat
> environment. You might not have it if you use another compiler.

So your point is that one should use C and the Microsoft libraries in
stead? Last time I checked I don't even have a C compiler for my Window
OSes and I certainly cannot compile it on Linux. :-) It seems a bit
unfair that for Ada one have to make everything both platform and
compiler independant while for C one doesn't when one compare the two.

Besides it isn't that hard to use the GNAT.OS_Lib with another compiler
I should think.

> But you'd have to drag the argument pretty hard across some rough terrain.
>:-) Its one thing to say "My project needs all these large C libraries - why
> do I want to complicate my life by using something other than C to implement
> my project?" (And this is generally how it goes - look at projects that rely
> heavily on any significant library and no matter how much better some other
> language may be, they very seldom go far afield from whatever that library
> was written in.) Its quite another thing to say "My project doesn't make
> extensive use of an OS or library, but I'm going to avoid Ada anyway
> because, well, just because!" :-)

:-)

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