Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2014 21:56:42 +0000 (UTC) From: Gabor Pali <pgj@FreeBSD.org> To: doc-committers@freebsd.org, svn-doc-all@freebsd.org, svn-doc-head@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r44383 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status Message-ID: <201403292156.s2TLugeb002566@svn.freebsd.org>
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Author: pgj Date: Sat Mar 29 21:56:42 2014 New Revision: 44383 URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/44383 Log: - Add 2014Q1 quarterly report for the Ada ports Submitted by: marino Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-01-2014-03.xml Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-01-2014-03.xml ============================================================================== --- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-01-2014-03.xml Sat Mar 29 19:44:13 2014 (r44382) +++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-01-2014-03.xml Sat Mar 29 21:56:42 2014 (r44383) @@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ <!-- XXX: Keep the number of entries updated --> <p>Thanks to all the reporters for the excellent work! This report - contains 4 entries and we hope you enjoy reading it.</p> + contains 5 entries and we hope you enjoy reading it.</p> <p>The deadline for submissions covering between April and June 2014 is July 7th, 2014.</p> @@ -243,4 +243,56 @@ for the &os; Webmaster Team.</p> </body> </project> + + <project cat='ports'> + <title>&os; Ada Ports</title> + + <contact> + <person> + <name> + <given>John</given> + <common>Marino</common> + </name> + <email>marino@FreeBSD.org</email> + </person> + </contact> + + <links> + <url href="http://www.dragonlace.net"/>; + <url href="http://www.spark-2014.org/about/">SPARK 2014</url> + </links> + + <body> + <p>Ada is a structured, statically typed, imperative, + wide-spectrum, and object-oriented high-level computer + programming language, extended from Pascal and other languages, + originally targeted at embedded and real-time systems. The + number of Ada ports in the collection has grown significantly + since the last report six months ago. There are almost 50 + Ada-related ports now, with new ones getting added the time.</p> + + <p>The previous plan was to move from the GCC 4.7-based GNAT + compiler to a GCC 4.8-based one, but finally GCC 4.8 was skipped + and now a GCC 4.9-based GNAT is the standard Ada compiler, which + fully supports the new ISO standard, Ada 2012. Moving to a + newer compiler allowed several important ports like PolyOrb and + GPRBuild to be upgraded to the latest available versions. In + fact, almost every Ada port is currrently at its most recent + upstream version.</p> + + <p>For non-Windows-based Ada development, &os; and DragonFly are + now undisputed as the go-to platforms. The other candidates are + Debian and Fedora, but there are few Ada software on those + platforms that are not also in &os; ports tree, but the versions are + much older. The Ports Collection also features software not found + anywhere else such as the USAFA's Ironsides DNS server, + libsparkcrypto, matreshka, GNATDroid (Android cross-compiler) and + several developer libraries.</p> + + <p>A desired addition to the Ada ports will be SPARK 2014 (see + links), which should cement &os; as an option for professional, + safety-critical application development. This package should + have its first release by early summer.</p> + </body> + </project> </report>
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