From: Optikos <optikos@verizon.net>
Subject: Re: What is best linux distribution for Ada programmers?
Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2019 14:36:54 -0700 (PDT)
Date: 2019-08-13T14:36:54-07:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <536f125f-8811-4fe8-8f8e-a47791f79732@googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <qiv4ub$1os5$1@gioia.aioe.org>
On Tuesday, August 13, 2019 at 3:01:20 PM UTC-5, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
> On 2019-08-13 18:13, Optikos wrote:
> > On Tuesday, August 13, 2019 at 10:48:33 AM UTC-5, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
> >> On 2019-08-13 17:31, Optikos wrote:
> >>
> >>> Well, then perhaps he should spend less time on sandwiches and more time maintaining this
> >>> webpage:
> >>>
> >>> https://people.debian.org/~lbrenta/debian-ada-policy.html#Help-wanted
> >>>
> >>> No updates since 2014 make this championing of Ada on Debian appear morribund to the casual
> >>> observer who happens to visit this flagship webpage for the Ada-on-Debian effort.
> >>
> >> It is not a blog, it is a document describing rules of packaging Ada
> >> projects for Debian.
That is in there too, but other material appears interspersed on that webpage. The other material (especially the tables' content) is antiquated.
> >> Less updates the better. As a provider of Debian
> >> packages I would be horrified and have dropped Debian (and consequently
> >> Ubuntu) support if it were changed each year.
> >
> > What is the “it” to which you refer—1) that webpage or 2) the Ada package in Debian? You surely
> > aren't saying that there has been a complete lack of updates to the Ada package in Debian since 2014
> > (and that the webpage is accurate & current), are you?
>
> The Debian Ada policy document. I am not aware of any inaccuracies or
> changes regarding Debian/Ubuntu Ada policies.
>
> --
> Regards,
> Dmitry A. Kazakov
> http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de
There is more in that webpage than merely normative policies. The tables of cross referencing versions of FSF GCC and AdaCore GNAT releases has not been updated since 2014. This flagship webpage for Ada-on-Debian gives the strong impression (e.g., to such people who pose OP's question) that the Ada-on-Debian effort is receiving less-fervent attention that it once did a half-decade ago, due to the stale information in those cross-reference tables.
Except embedded-target-specific distributions of Linux for various typically-ARM SBCs, the OP should never even need to doubt that Debian has the most-vibrant active FSF GNAT Ada support (outside of AdaCore) of all the Linux distributions.
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Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-08-13 6:48 What is best linux distribution for Ada programmers? reinert
2019-08-13 13:25 ` Optikos
2019-08-13 14:24 ` J-P. Rosen
2019-08-13 15:31 ` Optikos
2019-08-13 15:48 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2019-08-13 16:13 ` Optikos
2019-08-13 20:01 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2019-08-13 21:36 ` Optikos [this message]
2019-08-30 19:18 ` Ludovic Brenta
2019-08-13 16:59 ` reinert
2019-08-13 18:47 ` reinert
2019-08-17 8:31 ` Dirk Heinrichs
2019-09-29 20:50 ` Azathoth Hastur
2019-10-16 2:09 ` Andrew Shvets
2019-10-16 7:35 ` reinert
2019-10-16 8:20 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2019-10-16 18:43 ` Ludovic Brenta
2019-10-16 20:00 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2019-10-16 21:13 ` Ludovic Brenta
2019-10-17 12:32 ` Alain De Vos
2019-10-18 17:13 ` Dirk Heinrichs
2019-10-20 7:25 ` dirk.dickmanns
2019-10-21 4:49 ` reinert
2019-10-27 9:03 ` Bojan Bozovic
2019-11-07 23:50 ` Azathoth Hastur
2019-11-10 13:23 ` darkestkhan
2019-11-10 21:15 ` Alain De Vos
2019-11-11 5:46 ` Lucretia
2019-11-17 10:41 ` Alain De Vos
2019-11-17 12:43 ` Lucretia
2019-12-15 22:13 ` Azathoth Hastur
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