Re: ANN: SweetAda on github

[Shark8 <onewingedshark@gmail.com>]

On Friday, July 30, 2021 at 5:52:54 PM UTC-6, Gabriele Galeotti wrote:
> Hi all. 
> 
> SweetAda has now a home in GitHub. 
> You can reach it @ https://github.com/gabriele-galeotti/SweetAda. 
Very Nice!
> SweetAda is a lightweight development framework to create Ada systems on a wide range of machines. Please refer to https://www.sweetada.org. 
> 
> SweetAda is now licensed under the terms of the MIT license. 
Oh, this is excellent news.
> RTS and LibGCC files keep their original license, which is a GCC 
> runtime library exception 3.1. 
Is this with the generic-instantiation exception, or am I thinking of a different license?
> I've also building a new toolchain release, based on GCC 11.1.0, which will be uploaded in the next days both at SourceForge and SweetAda.org. 
> 
> The committed branch has some minor changes from the last v0.8 package, and new interesting features, like the possibility to compile the RTS directly from sources, and a fully usability in an MSYS2 environment (for MSYS2 first download the new toolchain and be sure to select only the items you're interested in, because the build script is querying the Makefile and is very slow under that environment). 
How integral is MSYS2 to everything?
> Yet I have very scarce time, and the documentation is thus painfully incomplete. But do not hesitate to ask. 
Thank you for the time and effort you have put in.
It is an impressive work.