Re: compiler server ...... for Gnat

[Stephen Leake <stephen.a.leake.1@gsfc.nasa.gov>]

Tony Gair <tonygair@blueyonder.co.uk> writes:

> Does anyone know how to modify the GNAT Compiler so 
> that it provides compilation services across a network
> rather than across a file system,

If the "network" can be mapped to a file system, as is normal for MS
Windows or Unix NFS, GNAT already does this. So I'm not clear what you
are asking. Can you give an example?

> It would also be helpful to know peoples thoughts on the difficulty

Depends on what you are actually doing; it appears to be already done,
so the difficulty is nil.

Hmm. Maybe you mean some sort of HTTP access to a compiler server. The
scenario there would be to copy the user's source to the server file
system, compile it, and copy the result back to the user. No
modification of GNAT required.

> and wether I would be sued for doing this.

Since GNAT is released under the GPL or GMGPL, you are free to modify
it anyway you want. The only restriction is that if you distribute
binaries of the result, you must also distribute the source.

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-- Stephe