Let me clarify one thing: I'm refering to Ada support in the OpenBSD packages and ports system, not in the base system. (Obviously... I sent the message to ports mailing list).
On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 5:59 PM, Theo de Raadt <dera...@cvs.openbsd.org> wrote: >> Is someone working in full Ada support (GCC GNAT) for OpenBSD? > > No. We got out of the cruise missile business a long time ago, since > we don't think it is nice to explode villagers back to the dark ages. > Nobody can predict the use someone else will do with tools, such programming languages. If the scalpel invention (Ada) was sponsored by a monster (DoD), for evil purposes (to kill people with precision), should we stop using scalpel for good things (any non-negative mission-critical application)? I'm not telling the Ada language will save this world. I just like the language itself (true interest in programming language design). To explore the good C codebase of the OpenBSD is nice, but C is not the only programming language in the entire world... >> The latest available package is gnat-4.2.4p1v0 (gcc-4.2.4p0v0), >> but with incomplete support (missing tasking support, though >> some work was made by Tero Koskinen, but not integrated in the tree), >> and slightly outdated. Is there any licensing problem with GCC >=4.5? > > Sure, there are licensing problems too. There's a lot of people who > are tired of working for on the empire of one man who keeps changing > the rules. > Richar...? :p No GPL3 in the ports tree? Or only monsters like the GCC (newer versions) will be rejected by the porters? (Again: in the *ports tree*.)
