Re: Alternative for Gnat Studio

["Jeffrey R. Carter" <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.not.acm.org>]

On 3/14/21 12:35 AM, Roger Mc wrote:
> On Sunday, March 14, 2021 at 9:07:05 AM UTC+11, Simon Wright wrote:
>> Jaime Tarrasa <jm.ta...@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> Gnat Studio freeware, one of the flagships tools of Ada, is not going
>>> to be continued. Another sign of where is going Ada. Another nail in
>>> the coffin.
>> At present, AdaCore don't provide GNAT Studio in the macOS version of
>> their Community Edition.
>>
>> They certainly provide it in other versions of CE, and to thir
>> customers.
>>
>> Whether they supply it to their macOS-using customers, I can't say.
>>
>> And, they may at some point decide to provide it again in the macOS
>> version.
> I am very uncomfortable with "may at some point decide to provide it again in the macOS
>> version".
> I am currently looking at SlickEdit as an alternative.

This all seems to be FUD. Gnat Studio is open source 
(https://github.com/AdaCore/gps). Anyone can get a copy of the code and build 
their own version. There are versions distributed with some Unix variants that 
seem to be separate from the AdaCore version.

There is no reason to think that it will become unavailable or cease to be useful.

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Jeff Carter
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