From: Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>
Subject: Re: What is best linux distribution for Ada programmers?
Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2019 21:18:41 +0200
Date: 2019-08-30T21:18:41+02:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87woeuxy0e.fsf@samuel> (raw)
In-Reply-To: qiuh7e$1ep$1@dont-email.me
"J-P. Rosen" <rosen@adalog.fr> writes:
> Le 13/08/2019 à 15:25, Optikos a écrit :
>> On Tuesday, August 13, 2019 at 1:48:02 AM UTC-5, reinert wrote:
>>> What is the best Linux distribution for Ada programmers?
>>> Debian? Ubuntu?
>>>
>>> reinert
>>
>> There was a time …
>>
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3HvUH4fJPM
>>
>> … when Debian (or all? Debian-derived) was clearly & definitively
>> the correct answer to this question, but Ludovic Brenta doesn't post
>> here at c.l.a anymore, so perhaps his dedication to carrying the Ada
>> torch among the Debian guiding lights might have waned a bit over
>> the years.
>>
> No, Ludovic is still the maintainer of Debian Ada, and still supporting
> the Ada world, especially by providing sandwiches for the speakers of
> the Ada Dev-room at FOSDEM!
To be perfectly honest, I have indeed lost most of my energy but my
former padawan, Nicolas Boulenguez, hs now beeb a full Debian Developer
for several years and continues to update packages (even now doing the
transition to gnat-9 for the next Debian release, in experimental). I
am very proud of him.
I only occasionally skim this newsgroup and post even less often. But
since you're mentioning me I have to express my gratitude and reassure
Debian users that Ada is still going strong :)
IIRC there was a one-man effort to port Ada and many packages to
DragonflyBSD, with the express purpose of stealing the crown jewel from
Debian. So perhaps DragonflyBSD is a strong contender too nowadays.
A few months ago I held a two-afternoon workshop about cryptography for
my 13-year-old son and a few of his friends. Of course we programmed in
Ada on Debian. Piece of cake for everyone involved to get GPS and
GtkAda running.
--
Ludovic Brenta.
A centralized, purpose-driven, high-definition and activity-centric solid profitability standardizes a high-grade and/or hypothesis-driven modern simplicity.
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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
2019-08-30 19:18 ` Ludovic Brenta [this message]
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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