From owner-svn-doc-head@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 29 21:56:43 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: svn-doc-head@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0CC0C746; Sat, 29 Mar 2014 21:56:43 +0000 (UTC) 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)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id DF995F64; Sat, 29 Mar 2014 21:56:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from svn.freebsd.org ([127.0.1.70]) by svn.freebsd.org (8.14.8/8.14.8) with ESMTP id s2TLugl9002567; Sat, 29 Mar 2014 21:56:42 GMT (envelope-from pgj@svn.freebsd.org) Received: (from pgj@localhost) by svn.freebsd.org (8.14.8/8.14.8/Submit) id s2TLugeb002566; Sat, 29 Mar 2014 21:56:42 GMT (envelope-from pgj@svn.freebsd.org) Message-Id: <201403292156.s2TLugeb002566@svn.freebsd.org> From: Gabor Pali Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2014 21:56:42 +0000 (UTC) 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 X-SVN-Group: doc-head MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-BeenThere: svn-doc-head@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list List-Id: SVN commit messages for the doc tree for head List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2014 21:56:43 -0000 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 @@

Thanks to all the reporters for the excellent work! This report - contains 4 entries and we hope you enjoy reading it.

+ contains 5 entries and we hope you enjoy reading it.

The deadline for submissions covering between April and June 2014 is July 7th, 2014.

@@ -243,4 +243,56 @@ for the &os; Webmaster Team.

+ + + &os; Ada Ports + + + + + John + Marino + + marino@FreeBSD.org + + + + + + SPARK 2014 + + + +

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.

+ +

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.

+ +

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.

+ +

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.

+ +