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: a07f3367d7,e826c8b10db5191c X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,public,usenet X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Received: by 10.180.106.73 with SMTP id gs9mr1237087wib.2.1362920443837; Sun, 10 Mar 2013 06:00:43 -0700 (PDT) Path: g1ni57531wig.0!nntp.google.com!feeder1.cambriumusenet.nl!82.197.223.108.MISMATCH!feeder2.cambriumusenet.nl!feed.tweaknews.nl!193.141.40.65.MISMATCH!npeer.de.kpn-eurorings.net!npeer-ng0.de.kpn-eurorings.net!border2.nntp.ams2.giganews.com!border4.nntp.ams.giganews.com!border2.nntp.ams.giganews.com!border3.nntp.ams.giganews.com!border1.nntp.ams.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!news.thorslund.org!pnx.dk!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Gustaf Thorslund Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: A known planned date fora GNAT 4.7 or 4.8? Date: Mon, 04 Mar 2013 12:53:35 +0100 Organization: gustaf.thorslund.org Message-ID: References: <87fw5beg4i.fsf@ludovic-brenta.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: 192.168.1.1 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Trace: news.thorslund.org 1362398015 28282 192.168.1.1 (4 Mar 2013 11:53:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@thorslund.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2013 11:53:35 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.4 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:SOZsiPHwESG+oQ4amEuVdykUw8Q= Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Date: 2013-03-04T12:53:35+01:00 List-Id: "Yannick Duch�ne (Hibou57)" writes: > Do you know if there will be any GNAT 4.8 On Ubuntu 12.04 (LTS) in any > future? I don't think you can expect an old Ubuntu version get newer packages. But maybe you wonder about next LTS. > Seems to stay with GCC 4.6 so far, not even GCC 4.7. There was no GNAT 4.7 in Debian unstable when 12.04 was frozen so 12.04 got no 4.7. I suppose you'll have to wait until 13.10 to see any of them. In Ubuntu Ada packages are community packages and they pick what Debian unstable got at some point. So if you would like to predict the progress of any Ada packages in Ubuntu you would have to look at progress in Debian and add up to a half year (or more if you are looking for LTS). > I know I > can install a GCC 4.8 snapshot (what I did, and it works fine), That's what I do too. > but > it's not OK as a build dependency of a source package I guess, and > I'm planning to have a test publishing a tiny simple application, the > core in Ada 2012 and the UI in Vala. The publication process requires > a source package, and I don't want to use GNAT specific features with > a GNAT 4.6 which does not properly handles Ada 2012 > (ex. Static_Predicate is not recognized, nor some part of the Ada > 2012 iteration features). Not trying to be offencive in any way, but when are you counting on getting your code stable enough for packaging? Personally I expect the packaging of 4.8 to go faster then my coding so I've got no concerns regarding when it will be available. > Note I'm not begging for anything, just seeking for what I can expect > and can't expect in the future. If I can't expect a GNAT 4.8 before > the next LTS, I won't mind, and will just fall-back to Ada 2005. LTS comes out with YY.04 version iirc [*]. Could we guess 14.04 to be next LTS? Maybe you could keep an eye on the version in Debian unstable, test it in a chroot/vm/lxc and give feedback (to Ludovic) using mailing list/open bugs... That way you will increace the chances for Ubuntu picking a version you have already tested. [*] I went upstream to Debian during last year so I'm not following Ubuntu very much. /Gustaf