Re: AdaCore's survey regarding the future of GNAT Community Edition

[Roger Mc <rogermcm2@gmail.com>]

On Thursday, August 20, 2020 at 3:42:26 PM UTC+10, Roger Mc wrote:
> On Thursday, August 20, 2020 at 12:29:05 AM UTC+10, Simon Wright wrote: 
> > Roger Mc <roge...@gmail.com> writes: 
> > 
> > > I did try to build gps from the current Adacore community source but 
> > > was unsuccessful. The main problem being that Adacore seem to be in 
> > > the midst of doing the necessary upgrade from Python 2 to Python3. I 
> > > did attempt to do Python3 modifications myself but eventually got to a 
> > > stage where I could proceed no further 
> > I've reached the same stage. I can manage some of the 2-to-3 fixes (not 
> > the one in gobject-introspection, though), but the real problem for me 
> > is that there isn't a consistent complete set of sources, and some 
> > aren't provided on the Adacore community site (e.g. pygobject, langkit, 
> > libadalang, libadalang-tools, ada_language_server). And, so far as I can 
> > see, langkit (20.2) isn't consistent with libadalang (20.2). And, my 
> > Python venv has got screwed. 
> > 
> > Netflix & Twitter.
> I think I managed to do all the Python 3 conversions but couldn't get linking to work. 
> I recall that getting the prerequisites built was a challenge and found that if I changed anything in any of them I'd have to go back and start building them from scratch again. Worse, I seem to recall that for at least one of them, probably langkit, I'd have to delete it and reload it from its archive file. 
> Its comforting to find that many of the opinions expressed in this thread are similar to my own.

This indicates my progress:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/62146798/adacore-gnatstudio-builds-but-wont-run