The state of Ada (Re: FreeBSD unmaintained ports which are currently scheduled for deletion)

[Mikhail T.]

01/-10/37 14:59, linimon at FreeBSD.org wrote:
> portname:           devel/adabindx
> description:        An Ada-binding to the X Window System and *tif
> maintainer:ports at FreeBSD.org
> status:             BROKEN
> deprecated because: has been broken for 3 months
> expiration date:    2010-01-08
> build errors:       none.
> overview:http://portsmon.FreeBSD.org/portoverview.py?category=devel&portname=adabindx
>
>
> [...]

It looks like a noticeable share of the ports listed have one thing in 
common -- they depend on Ada.

Various gnat-ports would not even build on anything but i386...

Is Ada-support really in such a bad shape by the GNU-project, or is it 
just a FreeBSD problem?

    -mi