On Wed, 14 Dec 2016 08:30:00 +0000 "M. J. Everitt" <m.j.ever...@iee.org> wrote:
> On 14/12/16 08:26, Christopher Head wrote: > > On Sun, 11 Dec 2016 16:59:50 +0100 > > Michał Górny <mgo...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > > >> Hello, everyone. > >> > >> The Ada project seriously needs help. For some time already, it has no > >> active developers (George is retiring), and a lot of bugs needing > >> attention. > >> > >> The packages maintained by aga@g.o are: > >> > >> app-eselect/eselect-gnat > >> dev-ada/asis-gcc > >> dev-ada/charles > >> dev-lang/gnat-gcc > >> virtual/ada > >> virtual/gnat > >> > >> Since the Ada subsystem in Gentoo is practically unmaintained now > >> and has only those two packages, the alternative is to lastrite it > >> all. > >> > >> Is anyone interested in Ada? Any comments? > >> > > I notice sci-electronics/ghdl is not in this list. Is it considered > > part of this? It depends on gnat-gcc. I guess it would also be lost if > > the above were given last rites? > Following this theme, what does the dependency list look like Michał ? Well, to be honest I didn't really think it would come to that. But if you insist, there are two dependencies: net-mail/topal sci-electronics/ghdl The first one is dead and in process of being removed (waiting on stablereq of newer alpine). With it gone, we'd also get rid of some ugly hacks to net-libs/c-client (and with Alpine gone, we'd even get rid of more hacks!) So the only real consumer is GHDL -- yet another case when someone thought it'd be fun to use a fringe language to implement something useful... However, it seems to be undermaintained in Gentoo as well, not bumped for a long time. -- Best regards, Michał Górny <http://dev.gentoo.org/~mgorny/>
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