From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.5-pre1 (2020-06-20) on ip-172-31-74-118.ec2.internal X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.5 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_05,FORGED_GMAIL_RCVD, FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.5-pre1 X-Received: by 2002:ac8:7c87:: with SMTP id y7mr1322029qtv.375.1597903293990; Wed, 19 Aug 2020 23:01:33 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 2002:a0c:f4d0:: with SMTP id o16mr1610953qvm.225.1597903293848; Wed, 19 Aug 2020 23:01:33 -0700 (PDT) Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!aioe.org!peer03.ams4!peer.am4.highwinds-media.com!peer02.iad!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!news-out.google.com!nntp.google.com!postnews.google.com!google-groups.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2020 23:01:33 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: google-groups.googlegroups.com; posting-host=203.59.21.214; posting-account=d51RWwoAAADvR-x0zYAtT9z3CRxT1eXo NNTP-Posting-Host: 203.59.21.214 References: <52baf1e5-f0a5-42be-acc7-75fb17fb6f4co@googlegroups.com> <5b2b3117-dd85-45ff-bbf6-0a1fa6364f76n@googlegroups.com> <2e77d5f6-3545-41e2-a378-2a98a8ed7cd6n@googlegroups.com> User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <575109c5-8df7-44eb-82ea-0b320a35446fn@googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: AdaCore's survey regarding the future of GNAT Community Edition From: Roger Mc Injection-Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2020 06:01:33 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Received-Bytes: 3238 X-Received-Body-CRC: 2093015015 Xref: reader01.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:59758 List-Id: 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:= =20 > > Roger Mc writes:=20 > >=20 > > > I did try to build gps from the current Adacore community source but= =20 > > > was unsuccessful. The main problem being that Adacore seem to be in= =20 > > > the midst of doing the necessary upgrade from Python 2 to Python3. I= =20 > > > did attempt to do Python3 modifications myself but eventually got to = a=20 > > > stage where I could proceed no further=20 > > I've reached the same stage. I can manage some of the 2-to-3 fixes (not= =20 > > the one in gobject-introspection, though), but the real problem for me= =20 > > is that there isn't a consistent complete set of sources, and some=20 > > aren't provided on the Adacore community site (e.g. pygobject, langkit,= =20 > > libadalang, libadalang-tools, ada_language_server). And, so far as I ca= n=20 > > see, langkit (20.2) isn't consistent with libadalang (20.2). And, my=20 > > Python venv has got screwed.=20 > >=20 > > Netflix & Twitter. > I think I managed to do all the Python 3 conversions but couldn't get lin= king to work.=20 > I recall that getting the prerequisites built was a challenge and found t= hat if I changed anything in any of them I'd have to go back and start buil= ding 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 ar= chive file.=20 > 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