Features/Ada developer tools

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Feature Name

Features/BetterAdaSupport

Summary

Ada is a structured, statically typed, imperative, wide-spectrum, and object-oriented high-level computer programming language. It has strong built-in language support for explicit concurrency, offering tasks, synchronous message passing (via guarded task entries), protected objects (a monitor-like construct with additional guards as in conditional critical regions) and nondeterminism (via select statements).

Owner

• Name: Pavel Zhukov

• Email: landgraf@fedoraproject.org

Current status

• Targeted release: Fedora 16
• Last updated: (DATE)
• Percentage of completion: 25%

Benefit to Fedora

For Fedora this brings the Ada support right up to date and alongside Debian. It also enables our developers to use a powerful, secure and fast programming language.

Scope

Required steps are:

1. XMLAda - full XML stack for
2. GprBuild - Gnat project build
3. GtkAda - Ada bindings for GTK
4. QtAda - Ada bindings for QT
5. GPS - GNAT Programming Studio
6. AWS - Ada web server and tools for http:// and other protocols

User Experience

End users won't notice the difference. Developers will have a more powerful and up to date Ada to use.

Dependencies

None

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