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<!-- XXX: keep updating the number of entries -->
<p>Thanks to all the reporters for the excellent work! This report
contains 9 entries and we hope you enjoy reading it.</p>
contains 10 entries and we hope you enjoy reading it.</p>
<!-- XXX: set date for the next set of submissions -->
<p>The deadline for submissions covering between October and
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unit and regression tests.</task>
</help>
</project>
<project cat='ports'>
<title>&os; Ada Ports</title>
<contact>
<person>
<name>
<given>John</given>
<common>Marino</common>
</name>
<email>marino@FreeBSD.org</email>
</person>
</contact>
<links>
<url href="http://www.dragonlace.net"/>
</links>
<body>
<p>A few years ago, Ada-based ports almost completely disappeared
from the Ports Collection. This was not surprising as
FSF&nbsp;GNAT, the only open-source Ada compiler, ceased to
build correctly on any BSD flavor and previously built bootstrap
compilers would not run on modern &os;, and certainly not on
amd64. The first step, see the link for details, was to patch
GCC in order to fix GNAT not only on &os;, but DragonFly,
NetBSD, and OpenBSD as well. New bootstraps for both i386 and
amd64 platforms were produced during this effort. Ada compilers
on &os; now pass 100% of the ACATS and GCC testsuites.</p>
<p>With the first new Ada compiler port was introduced, the
GCC&nbsp;4.6-based <tt>lang/gnat-aux</tt>, the GNAT Programming
Studio (multilanguage integrated development environment),
XML/Ada, and GTkAda were among the first Ada ports
resurrected.</p>
<p>With the latest compiler, <tt>lang/gcc-aux</tt> based on GCC
4.7, a cohesive Ada framework was created with the new
<tt>USES=</tt> capability. Currently around 20 ports are part
of this framework including Florist, ASIS, GPRbuild, QtAda,
AdaControl, AdaBrowse, PolyOrb, and AWS (Ada Web Server).</p>
<p>The GNAT AUX compiler is also still in use to serve as a basis
for the GNATDroid ports which are &os;-to-Android Ada+C cross-compilers.
However, these will soon be integrated in the Ada Framework.</p>
<p>At this point, it looks like that &os; (shared with DragonFly
via DPorts) has taken the crown from Debian as the recognized best
Ada development platform. The &os; versions of the software are
more recent and the Ports Collection has ports not available on
Debian, such as LibSparkCrypto, Matreshka library, and the Ahven
unit tester.</p>
<p>Future work potentially includes converting GCC AUX to
GCC&nbsp;4.8 to acquire better Ada&nbsp;2012 support, importing
Spar&nbsp;k2014 into ports when it arrives and to continue to
add new Ada ports to the framework.</p>
</body>
</project>
</report>