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Date:      Fri, 8 Jan 2010 14:59:05 -0500 (EST)
From:      Daniel Eischen <deischen@freebsd.org>
To:        John Merryweather Cooper <john_m_cooper@yahoo.com>
Cc:        ports@freebsd.org, "Mikhail T." <mi+thun@aldan.algebra.com>, karel@lovetemple.net
Subject:   Re: The state of Ada (Re: FreeBSD unmaintained ports which are currently scheduled for deletion)
Message-ID:  <Pine.GSO.4.64.1001081457230.23044@sea.ntplx.net>
In-Reply-To: <362458.2970.qm@web50704.mail.re2.yahoo.com>
References:  <4B4772F4.5070601@aldan.algebra.com> <362458.2970.qm@web50704.mail.re2.yahoo.com>

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On Fri, 8 Jan 2010, John Merryweather Cooper wrote:

> Well, the compiler needs to be upgraded to the latest version.  Linux 
> gets a compiler out of the box, but we have to bend one to shape. 
> Most things stay the same, but there are always subtle differences. 
> I'd be happy to help do this (as I'm currently unemployed), but I'm 
> also going through a divorce.  You can contact me more directly at 
> j.m.cooper at borgsdemons.com.

All the ports that I saw that were broken, were broken
*because* the compiler (lang/gnat) was updated.  Those
ports seemed to be vastly out of date and didn't build
with the latest GPL gnat from ACT.

-- 
DE



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