Re: GNAT Community Edition 2018

[Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>]

"Alejandro R. Mosteo" <alejandro@mosteo.com> writes:

> On 11/06/2018 00:39, Dan'l Miller wrote:
>>> On 10/06/2018 22:11, Dan'l Miller wrote:
>>>>> I'm seeing several projects fail because the
>>>>> new release no longer recognizes
>>>>> -gnat05/gnat2005 switches.
>>>>>
>>>>> Curiously, gnatmake -h says to accept
>>>>> -gnat2012 and says it's the default
>>>>> mode, but lists no way to select another mode.
>>>>
>>>> I thought as a general policy AdaCore demanded that all prior eras
>>>> of Ada are a paid-support topic for GNAT Pro.  Along with 83 and
>>>> 95, 2005 would now be a prior pre-2012 era.
>>>>
>>> No, in my experience you could always select
>>> the compiler mode.
>>
>> I reiterate:
>> The AdaCore version comparison is quite explicitly clear on this.
>> GNAT GPL Community Edition (a.k.a. “public) lists Ada2005 for paying
>> customers only under the Languages section at:
>>
>> https://www.adacore.com/gnatpro/comparison
>
> You're right. Then this is part of the GPL -> Community rebranding.

-gnat83, -gnat95, -gnat2005 still OK with FSF GCC 8.