From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,f16a645029bb2cdd X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news2.google.com!proxad.net!134.158.69.22.MISMATCH!in2p3.fr!kanaga.switch.ch!switch.ch!newsfeed.inode.at!news.hispeed.ch!linux2.krischik.com!news From: Martin Krischik Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: The GNU Ada compiler Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2005 19:22:01 +0100 Organization: Cablecom Newsserver Message-ID: <11033067.32jx4Dk0bW@linux1.krischik.com> References: <8352037.GvZVdQSXN4@linux1.krischik.com> <%jjpf.152581$dP1.510205@newsc.telia.net> <1587394.dEJr1xXLMr@linux1.krischik.com> <87ek49rvcy.fsf@ludovic-brenta.org> <1372679.szUGUvjJ5V@linux1.krischik.com> <87mziwq7hy.fsf@ludovic-brenta.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: 84-74-134-212.dclient.hispeed.ch Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Trace: news.hispeed.ch 1135103408 16083 84.74.134.212 (20 Dec 2005 18:30:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@hispeed.ch NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2005 18:30:08 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: KNode/0.10 Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:6944 Date: 2005-12-20T19:22:01+01:00 List-Id: Ludovic Brenta wrote: > Sadly, there is already a lot of FUD created by poor support for Ada > in most distributions. Do you not agree that SuSE, for example, > created a lot of FUD by shipping gnat-3.3? Indeed they did. Mind you: Hello_World compiles OK with 3.3. > I still think that the best way to reduce this confusion is not to > create a new binary distribution of GNAT (which would more or less > compete with AdaCore's), I think AdaCore could do with some competition in the binary distribution area. Especial for targets for which they don't offer a GNAT/GPL edition. > but instead to join your distribution's GCC > maintenance team and influence them so they provide good Ada support > *by default*. Of course, if you also provide a central repository for > patches that can be shared between distributions, this is all for the > better. True. But that is a lot more work - I don't know if I have time for that. Martin -- mailto://krischik@users.sourceforge.net Ada programming at: http://ada.krischik.com