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Subject: Re: How to get Ada to ?cross the chasm??
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Jacob Sparre Andersen <jacob@jacob-sparre.dk> writes:

> Lucretia <laguest9000@googlemail.com> writes:
>> On Tuesday, 10 July 2018 03:41:40 UTC+1, toanp...@gmail.com  wrote:
>
>>> Sure. I think GNAT GPL is major obstacle for small team/start-up to
>>> adopt ADA.
>>
>> It certainly is and has been proven to be so.
>
> Why not spend time and resources promoting FSF GNAT builds, instead of
> complaining about an AdaCore GNAT build?
>
> If you remembered to link to where people can get a FSF GNAT build[1] every
> time you respond to a discussion about to the license of GNAT GPL/GNAT
> CE, people would be much more likely to notice that they don't have to
> use GNAT GPL/GNAT CE.
>
> Greetings,
>
> Jacob
>
> [1] FSF GNAT 8 is included in Debian, Fedora and Ubuntu.  FSF GNAT 7 is
>     packaged for Windows in MSys (http://www.msys2.org/).

Darwin:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/gnuada/files/GNAT_GCC%20Mac%20OS%20X/

(I'm sorry about the use of spaces in that name, I didn't set it up. I'm
rather reluctant to change it now and lose all the links (and download
history))