Steps to prune and add Ada ports?

[wen heping]

Better to send PRs to add or remove these ports. I am intersting to take.

wen

2011/1/4 John Marino <freebsdml at marino.st>:
> Before opening an Problem Reports, I thought I'd run what I'd like to do by
> the FreeBSD ports mailing list.
>
> The following five ports need to be deleted:
> lang/gnat-doc-html
> lang/gnat-doc-info
> lang/gnat-doc-ps
> lang/gnat-doc-texi
> lang/gnat-doc-tex
> Reason:  These provide documentation for GNAT 3.15p, which was deleted from
> the ports tree more than 5 years ago.  Should I submit a PR to get this
> done?  There is no maintainer listed for them.
>
>
> Secondly, I've been working for months to bring GNAT, the GNAT Programming
> Studio (GPS), the Ada Web Server (AWS), and other packages to all four major
> BSDs.  The website tracking the progress of this work is
> http://www.dragonlace.net
>
> I've already developed seven FreeBSD ports for the following:
> GNAT-AUX (based on GCC 4.6)
> GPS 5.0
> AWS 2.10w
> GPRBuild-AUX
> GnatPython
> GTKAda 2.22
> XML/Ada 4.1w
>
> The last six ports on the list don't currently exist in the tree.  "GNAT
> AUX" is a significantly patched version of GNAT that passes all tests
> (~3200) on both AMD64 and i386.
>
> It should replace the gnat-gcc44 port which doesn't produce a usable AMD64
> GNAT (The port maintainer agreed on IRC #Ada).  Additionally, gnat-gcc42
> should be pruned because it doesn't build on FreeBSD 8.  The other FSF GNAT
> port is gnat-gcc43.  It builds on FreeBSD 7 and 8, but only for the i386
> platform.  I don't know how well it passes the regression testsuite.  There
> could be a debate if there's value in having gnat-gcc43 in the tree once
> GNAT-AUX is available.
>
> Some of the proposed ports require "GPRBuild" to build, and the version of
> GPRBuild I'm providing requires GNAT AUX.  It will not build on GNAT GPL or
> any gnat-gcc both due to changes in the compiler and hardcoded executable
> names.  This would also be a reason to prune the older GNAT ports as they
> would not be able to build many (or any?) of the Ada software in the ports
> tree anyway.
>
> What's the best approach to add these 7 Ada ports (again, already developed)
> and start removing the useless ones?  I'm willing to maintain  the all the
> ports that I submit.
>
> Regards,
> John
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