From owner-svn-doc-all@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 30 11:04:13 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: svn-doc-all@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 842A5B72; Mon, 30 Sep 2013 11:04:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pgj@FreeBSD.org) Received: from svn.freebsd.org (svn.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:2068::e6a:0]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 7154C2B64; Mon, 30 Sep 2013 11:04:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from svn.freebsd.org ([127.0.1.70]) by svn.freebsd.org (8.14.7/8.14.7) with ESMTP id r8UB4DeL003058; Mon, 30 Sep 2013 11:04:13 GMT (envelope-from pgj@svn.freebsd.org) Received: (from pgj@localhost) by svn.freebsd.org (8.14.7/8.14.5/Submit) id r8UB4DJp003057; Mon, 30 Sep 2013 11:04:13 GMT (envelope-from pgj@svn.freebsd.org) Message-Id: <201309301104.r8UB4DJp003057@svn.freebsd.org> From: Gabor Pali Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2013 11:04:13 +0000 (UTC) To: doc-committers@freebsd.org, svn-doc-all@freebsd.org, svn-doc-head@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r42761 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status X-SVN-Group: doc-head MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-BeenThere: svn-doc-all@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "SVN commit messages for the entire doc trees \(except for " user" , " projects" , and " translations" \)" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2013 11:04:13 -0000 Author: pgj Date: Mon Sep 30 11:04:12 2013 New Revision: 42761 URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/42761 Log: - Add a Q3 entry on Ada ports Submitted by: marino Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2013-07-2013-09.xml Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2013-07-2013-09.xml ============================================================================== --- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2013-07-2013-09.xml Mon Sep 30 08:35:32 2013 (r42760) +++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2013-07-2013-09.xml Mon Sep 30 11:04:12 2013 (r42761) @@ -19,7 +19,7 @@

Thanks to all the reporters for the excellent work! This report - contains 9 entries and we hope you enjoy reading it.

+ contains 10 entries and we hope you enjoy reading it.

The deadline for submissions covering between October and @@ -463,4 +463,63 @@ unit and regression tests. + + + &os; Ada Ports + + + + + John + Marino + + marino@FreeBSD.org + + + + + + + + +

A few years ago, Ada-based ports almost completely disappeared + from the Ports Collection. This was not surprising as + FSF GNAT, the only open-source Ada compiler, ceased to + build correctly on any BSD flavor and previously built bootstrap + compilers would not run on modern &os;, and certainly not on + amd64. The first step, see the link for details, was to patch + GCC in order to fix GNAT not only on &os;, but DragonFly, + NetBSD, and OpenBSD as well. New bootstraps for both i386 and + amd64 platforms were produced during this effort. Ada compilers + on &os; now pass 100% of the ACATS and GCC testsuites.

+ +

With the first new Ada compiler port was introduced, the + GCC 4.6-based lang/gnat-aux, the GNAT Programming + Studio (multilanguage integrated development environment), + XML/Ada, and GTkAda were among the first Ada ports + resurrected.

+ +

With the latest compiler, lang/gcc-aux based on GCC + 4.7, a cohesive Ada framework was created with the new + USES= capability. Currently around 20 ports are part + of this framework including Florist, ASIS, GPRbuild, QtAda, + AdaControl, AdaBrowse, PolyOrb, and AWS (Ada Web Server).

+ +

The GNAT AUX compiler is also still in use to serve as a basis + for the GNATDroid ports which are &os;-to-Android Ada+C cross-compilers. + However, these will soon be integrated in the Ada Framework.

+ +

At this point, it looks like that &os; (shared with DragonFly + via DPorts) has taken the crown from Debian as the recognized best + Ada development platform. The &os; versions of the software are + more recent and the Ports Collection has ports not available on + Debian, such as LibSparkCrypto, Matreshka library, and the Ahven + unit tester.

+ +

Future work potentially includes converting GCC AUX to + GCC 4.8 to acquire better Ada 2012 support, importing + Spar k2014 into ports when it arrives and to continue to + add new Ada ports to the framework.

+ +