[omniORB] Beta release of AdaBroker, an IDL to Ada precompiler

[Fabien Azavant]

That is right, we are currently discussing this issue on adabroker@adabroker.eu.org.
If anyone wants to join the discussion, go to http://adabroker.eu.org to subsribe.

Fabien

>Hmmm, in my opinion the GNU GPL is not ideal for tools.  Have you considered the
>GNU Library GPL?
>
>Since both the GPL and LGPL have serious problems with regards to embedded
>systems (you have to provide the end user with source or object code for both
>your own code and for any third party tools....), a license that will allow the
>developer to put the application in ROM without distributing full application
>source to the end user would be the ideal.  There are a number of licenses out
>there that are written with this in mind.  The license for eCos (open source real
>time OS) is one of them (see http://www.cygnus.com/ecos/).
>
>- Helge

Fabien Azavant wrote:

> We are pleased to announce the first beta release of AdaBroker, an
> IDL to Ada precompiler and a CORBA runtime based on OmniORB2.
>
> The WWW page for AdaBroker is: http://adabroker.eu.org/
>
> AdaBroker is released under the GNU General Public License. The software can
> be downloaded from the WWW page.
>
> Features :
> ----------
>
> - Most of the CORBA features are implemented except dynamic
>   invocation. This includes CORBA types, CORBA exceptions, forward
>   declarations and multiple inheritance. The Ada tasking is also
>   working with AdaBroker. AdaBroker/Examples provides
>   several examples of the available features.
>
> - This release has been successfully tested on Solaris. It has been
>   reported to work on Linux (RedHat and Debian) with a home-built
>   Ada and C++ compiler based on EGCS 1.1.1 and GNAT 3.11p.
>
> - If you need to debug AdaBroker, you can create a file adabroker.opt in
>   your current directory. This file should contain lines with package
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