Ada January 2014

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Packaging GTKada 3
by Björn Persson 28 Jan '14

28 Jan '14

I'm investigating how GTKada 3 can be packaged in Fedora. These are my current thoughts on the matter: GTK+ 3 contains many API changes, and so does GTKada 3. Packages currently in Fedora require GTKada 2 and can't simply be recompiled with GTKada 3. There may also be users I don't know about who need GTKada 2. Therefore I think we need to ship both versions for at least a few Fedora releases. Unlike GTK+, GTKada has no support for installing two versions side by side, other than dumping the entire directory tree under some nonstandard prefix and requiring users to mess with various environment variables. Despite the API incompatibilities, both versions use the filenames "gtkada.gpr", "gtkada-config" and "gtkada.pc". Theoretically I could hack the build system to change various filenames from "gtkada" to "gtkada3", but that would be a lot of trouble and would make Fedora incompatible with everything that uses GTKada. Both developers and packagers would have to do special things to select the right version of the library. I think I'll make a new package named GtkAda3, and allow it to use mostly the same filenames as the existing package GtkAda. The binary libraries will be parallel-installable because their filenames are versioned, but the -devel packages will conflict. A program using GTKada 3 will coexist peacefully with one using GTKada 2, and building packages in Koji or Mock will work as each package will pull in either GtkAda or GtkAda3 but not both. Only developers who want to program for both versions of GTKada at once will have a problem. They will have to install at least one of the libraries elsewhere in the filesystem and mess with environment variables as Adacore expects them to do. There are no Gnome bindings in GTKada 3. The OpenGL bindings and the GTK.Extra widgets don't compile, so it looks like those will be left out of the package, at least initially. Björn Persson

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Ada packages in EPEL 7
by Björn Persson 19 Jan '14

19 Jan '14

The following packages are now available in EPEL 7: anet fedora-gnat-project-common GtkAda mine_detector PragmARC python-sphinxcontrib-adadomain zlib-ada Björn Persson

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Fosdem
by Pavel Zhukov 16 Jan '14

16 Jan '14

Hi all (Bjorn :)), Are you going to FOSDEM this year? I'll have track at the ada room called "Ada in Fedora". The main topic is current implementation of the developer tools. I'd like to sync before: 1) Ada packaging policy is more or less stable and ready to use 2) Fedora-gnat-project-common - nice gpr files and macroses to make out life easier. 3) xmlada, gprbuild, aws, gnatcoll : current release (2013) packaged 4) GtkAda : packaged, update to the 3x branch is under discussion. 5) Matreshka : current release packaged (0.6.0 is coming soon) 6) Comfignat - ? 7) aunit, florist - need to be updated. 8) zeromq-ada - dead upstream but current implentation wotks fine with 2.X branch and thin enought to avoid bugs. 9) qtada - I've lost srpm again :( but gela-asis is packaged so probably I'll have qtada soon again. Do you have any suggestions/additions? -- Pavel

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