Re: gnat-3.2 transition plan
Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org> 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 the corresponding version of
>> the compiler. This means that a lot of work is required each time a
>> new GNAT version is released.
>
> How is this different from G++?
Not much, I fear. One C++ ABI transition per year has to be expected
from now on? (ACT releases a new public version about once a year.)
The key differences are G++'s large user base and the GCC maintainer
team. GNAT (at least the 3.1?p version) has no Debian maintainer at
the moment, and nobody complained that a central package (libgtkada1)
fails to build from source etc.
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