Re: gnat-3.2 transition plan

2003-03-02 Thread Martin v. Löwis
Matthias Klose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Rumour says, that there will be one more C++ ABI change to fix bugs > found after the gcc-3.2 release (maybe for gcc-3.4), and then the C++ > ABI will be stable ... I believe this is a misprediction of the future. Here is my prediction: 1. The "core"

Re: gnat-3.2 transition plan

2003-03-02 Thread Matthias Klose
Florian Weimer writes: > Matthew Wilcox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Sun, Mar 02, 2003 at 11:33:18AM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote: > >> Please drop shared library support altogether. It is currently not > >> worth the trouble. GNAT ABIs change from version to version, and the > >> run-tim

Re: gnat-3.2 transition plan

2003-03-02 Thread Florian Weimer
Matthew Wilcox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, Mar 02, 2003 at 11:33:18AM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote: >> Please drop shared library support altogether. It is currently not >> worth the trouble. GNAT ABIs change from version to version, and the >> run-time library can be built only with th

Re: gnat-3.2 transition plan

2003-03-02 Thread Matthew Wilcox
On Sun, Mar 02, 2003 at 11:33:18AM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote: > Please drop shared library support altogether. It is currently not > worth the trouble. GNAT ABIs change from version to version, and the > run-time library can be built only with the corresponding version of > the compiler. This

Re: gnat-3.2 transition plan

2003-03-02 Thread debgcc+Steven . Murdoch
Thanks for your work on GNAT. It will be good to have it being maintained on Debian again. > I don't see a significant number of small Ada programs in Debian. True. However there are a significant number of people who do development of small programs using Debian and who sometimes distribute them

Re: gnat-3.2 transition plan

2003-03-02 Thread Florian Weimer
Miah Gregory <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This concerns me a little. It seems to my untrained eye that this change > would mean that we're sacrificing large amounts of space in packages > compiled with GNAT, just to save rebuilding those packages when a new > version of GNAT is uploaded? Given th

Re: gnat-3.2 transition plan

2003-03-02 Thread Miah Gregory
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Matthias Klose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Florian Weimer writes: > > Please drop shared library support altogether. It is currently not > > worth the trouble. GNAT ABIs change from version to version, and the > > run-time library can be built only with

Re: gnat-3.2 transition plan

2003-03-02 Thread Matthias Klose
Florian Weimer writes: > Please drop shared library support altogether. It is currently not > worth the trouble. GNAT ABIs change from version to version, and the > run-time library can be built only with the corresponding version of > the compiler. This means that a lot of work is required each

Re: gnat-3.2 transition plan

2003-03-02 Thread Florian Weimer
Matthew Wilcox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I confess to having made an omission when drawing up the gcc-3.2 > transition plan. I concentrated on C++ and completely ignored other > languages. I do not know what (if anything) nees to be done for Java > or Fortran. However, I've done a small amo

Re: gnat-3.2 transition plan

2003-03-02 Thread Jérôme Marant
Matthew Wilcox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Second problem: dependencies in the debian/control file. They probably > look something like this: > > Build-Depends: gnat (>= 3.14p-1), gnat (<< 3.15) > and > Depends: gnat (>= 3.14p-1), gnat (<< 3.15) > > What should these look like? I'm tempte

Re: gnat-3.2 transition plan

2003-03-02 Thread Matthew Wilcox
On Sun, Mar 02, 2003 at 09:36:17AM +, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > Second problem: dependencies in the debian/control file. They probably > look something like this: > > Build-Depends: gnat (>= 3.14p-1), gnat (<< 3.15) > and > Depends: gnat (>= 3.14p-1), gnat (<< 3.15) > > What should these l

gnat-3.2 transition plan

2003-03-02 Thread Matthew Wilcox
I confess to having made an omission when drawing up the gcc-3.2 transition plan. I concentrated on C++ and completely ignored other languages. I do not know what (if anything) nees to be done for Java or Fortran. However, I've done a small amount of investigation on what needs to be done for A