On Wed, 2016-11-02 at 19:03 +0100, Björn Persson wrote:
Pavel Zhukov <landgraf(a)fedoraproject.org> wrote:
>
> There were few attempts to package GPS in Fedora
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=834747
> Unfortunately neither myself or Bjorn use GPS so it's the main reason why
it's not packaged (I prefer emacs ada mode which is quite powerful).
>
> if you prefer using GNAT Programming Studio there're two ways:
> 1) Use gnat-gpl from adacore (it contains gps). You have to add installation
directory to your PATH variable
> 2) Package gps and submit it for review. Ada community will be happy!
>
> I'm adding Fedora Ada mainling list to the CC of this email.
Several people have asked about GPS before, so it's clear that it would
be good to have it packaged. I'm sure I or someone else would have done
it by now if Adacore's software were more packaging-friendly. It takes
a lot of time to wrestle with their makefiles to get everything built
with the right compiler options and installed in the right directories.
All of my own Ada work in recent years has gone into keeping up with
changes in the Adacore packages we already have, to keep them
up-to-date and buildable.
Possibly it might be somewhat easier to package GPS now that Fedora's
policy against bundled libraries has been relaxed.
Is there any chance things got
better with code being on GitHub and
supposed to be easier to build?
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Vratislav Podzimek
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