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

[Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org>]

On Friday, July 31, 2020 at 10:32:50 PM UTC-7, ldries46 wrote:
> I don't mind the idea on several conditions:
> 
>  1.   There must be a good other development environment in which FSF
>     can be integrated. So I don't have to use several other programs to
>     complete the full cycle. So writing code compiling, building,
>     running and debugging must be in one program

Emacs

>  2. Other languages can also be integrated.

Emacs

>  3. The possibilities of .grp files must be supported.

I assume you meant .gpr

GNU ELPA ada-mode also provides gpr-mode

>  4. Existing GNAT libraries must be reachable.

Depends on the OS distribution. That has always been spotty, which is why I have always preferred the AdaCore distribution. But they promise to make it better, somehow.

>  5. There must come a site in which all of these things can be reached
>     or downloaded.

The intent is to use the "normal" way to install things on each supported OS. So on Debian that's apt-get or one of the wrappers around that. On Mingw64 that's pacman. Etc.
 
> In fact all this means that for the "amateur user" it all stays the same 
> only from another site

AdaCore does not intend to provide a distribution. And if they do a good job supporting Debian and Mingw64, I'll be happy.