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-Thread: 103376,b2dc1ee691d4409b X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,CP1252 Path: g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!news.glorb.com!newspeer1.se.telia.net!se.telia.net!masternews.telia.net.!newsb.telia.net.POSTED!not-for-mail From: =?windows-1252?Q?Bj=F6rn_Persson?= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6-1.1.fc4 (X11/20050720) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Latest GNAT version References: <1123683679.695932.12540@g47g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> In-Reply-To: <1123683679.695932.12540@g47g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 23:39:06 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 217.209.116.179 X-Complaints-To: abuse@telia.com X-Trace: newsb.telia.net 1123889946 217.209.116.179 (Sat, 13 Aug 2005 01:39:06 CEST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2005 01:39:06 CEST Organization: Telia Internet Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:4099 Date: 2005-08-12T23:39:06+00:00 List-Id: Ludovic Brenta wrote: > No. AdaCore have not made a formal "p" release sice 3.15p, but they > seem to think that GCC 3.4 and 4.0 are good enough. Which is true, > except that these versions don't support ASIS or the distributed > systems annex GLADE. > > If enough people politely ask for a newer "p" release with ASIS and > GLADE, perhaps they will listen? I for one would very much like to > transition Ada in Debian to GCC 4.0, which will be the system compiler > for the next stable release, codenamed "etch". If ASIS and GLADE could be lifted out from this hypothetical new "p" release and used with GCC 4.x releases without a lot of patching � good. Otherwise I think it would be better � at least for us free software users � if ASIS and GLADE could be kept in sync with GCC, because it would be easier to get them into OS distributions that way. Redhat provides the Ada part of GCC in Fedora Core, but hardly any other Ada packages. The situation seems to be similar with Suse. I've been thinking that maybe I should learn RPM and make some Ada packages for Fedora Extras. ASIS would be a candidate but it would have to work with the GCC release selected for each release of Fedora Core. It's a great advantage to C, Perl, Python and other languages that they are so readily available in the free Unixoids. A complete development environment with lots of libraries can be installed with a single command, or is even installed by default. I want Ada to have the same advantage, and not just in Debian but in other distributions too. ASIS is a vital part. Even Gnat appears incomplete when the tools that depend on ASIS are missing. It would therefore be very good if there were an ASIS release that worked with recent GCC releases. (I suppose GLADE would also be good to have, although I personally don't have a use for it.) -- Bj�rn Persson PGP key A88682FD omb jor ers @sv ge. r o.b n.p son eri nu