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From: "Ludovic Brenta" <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>
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Subject: Re: GNAT GPL 2005 Edition is now available
Date: 15 Sep 2005 07:27:24 -0700
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OK, here are the votes so far.  There are four contenders for the
title of "next Ada compiler for Debian": GNAT GPL 2005 Edition
(gnat-gpl below), gnat-3.4, gnat-4.0 and gnat-3.4+patches backported
from gnat-gpl.

I'm counting two votes when someone expressed strong preference for
one of the contenders, one vote for the second-best, and one negative
vote for a contender that is outright rejected.  I'm not voting myself
because, as I already said, I don't really have a preference one way
or another.

I propose to declare a winner next Tuesday evening (CET).  This gives
time for people who have remained silent to speak up, or for others to
research the issue for themselves.  Also, if I got something wrong in
the matrix below, feel free to amend it.  The more votes we get, the
more the easier the final decision will be to justify.

Voter                  gnat-gpl  gnat-3.4  gnat-4.0  gnat-3.4+patches
Jacob Sparre Andersen     -1        1         2
Brian May                  1                  1
Samuel Tardieu            -1
St=E9phane Rivi=E8re          -1        1         2
Adrian Wrigley            -1

PS. If you voice your opinion, I'd like to hear about your current
distribution and version of GNAT.  I'd also like to hear your reasons
for using, or not using, Debian.  Just curious.

--=20
Ludovic Brenta.