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 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.5-pre1 X-Received: by 2002:a37:9ccf:: with SMTP id f198mr14403859qke.168.1596411839679; Sun, 02 Aug 2020 16:43:59 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 2002:ad4:56ee:: with SMTP id cr14mr7832629qvb.119.1596411839436; Sun, 02 Aug 2020 16:43:59 -0700 (PDT) Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.uzoreto.com!tr3.eu1.usenetexpress.com!feeder.usenetexpress.com!tr3.iad1.usenetexpress.com!border1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!news-out.google.com!nntp.google.com!postnews.google.com!google-groups.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Sun, 2 Aug 2020 16:43:59 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <5f24fe80$0$1236$e4fe514c@news.kpn.nl> Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: google-groups.googlegroups.com; posting-host=76.77.182.20; posting-account=W2gdXQoAAADxIuhBWhPFjUps3wUp4RhQ NNTP-Posting-Host: 76.77.182.20 References: <52baf1e5-f0a5-42be-acc7-75fb17fb6f4co@googlegroups.com> <5f24fe80$0$1236$e4fe514c@news.kpn.nl> User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <715b141a-2672-436a-b0f2-0a0e87919ed4o@googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: AdaCore's survey regarding the future of GNAT Community Edition From: Stephen Leake Injection-Date: Sun, 02 Aug 2020 23:43:59 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Xref: reader01.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:59627 List-Id: On Friday, July 31, 2020 at 10:32:50 PM UTC-7, ldries46 wrote: > I don't mind the idea on several conditions: >=20 > 1. =C2=A0There must be a good other development environment in which FS= F > 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 i= t 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 O= S. So on Debian that's apt-get or one of the wrappers around that. On Mingw= 64 that's pacman. Etc. =20 > In fact all this means that for the "amateur user" it all stays the same= =20 > only from another site AdaCore does not intend to provide a distribution. And if they do a good jo= b supporting Debian and Mingw64, I'll be happy.