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,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,3e26dfa741e64e5f X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!postnews.google.com!o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: "Steve Whalen" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: GNAT GPL 2005 Edition is now available Date: 20 Sep 2005 21:48:22 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1127278102.573355.158650@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com> References: <432919be$0$10539$4d4eb98e@read.news.fr.uu.net> <1126774252.966025.283640@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <1126774578.526509.159960@g47g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <2202138.fOMkUmLaHt@linux1.krischik.com> <1127171105.496123.178650@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <878xxr1uvo.fsf@ludovic-brenta.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: 68.238.140.172 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Trace: posting.google.com 1127278107 19718 127.0.0.1 (21 Sep 2005 04:48:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 04:48:27 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: G2/0.2 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.11) Gecko/20050728,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=68.238.140.172; posting-account=GBMmzA0AAABrZ0dHOASa3b2Cdf-RliH9 Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:4974 Date: 2005-09-20T21:48:22-07:00 List-Id: Ludovic, First, let me thank you for the work you do keeping GNAT on Debian. Since I converted to Debian a few years ago, I've used the version of GNAT you've packaged and really appreciate the work you and the other maintainers do to keep Debian going. I wish I could provide you some of the input you seek on the GNAT2005 vs. 3.4 vs. 4.0 vs. etc. debate with respect to quality. Unfortunatly I've stuck with the 3.15 you package on Debian, and then I just use the most compatible version of the same "generation" (aka 3.15) on Windows. I vote AGAINST any verion of GNAT with the runtime libraries under GPL instead of the GMGPL. I vote FOR whichever of the 3 GMGPL runtime library other alternatives is: 1) most stable and easiest for you to package and maintain (my exposure to them is so limited as to be of no use to you, sorry). 2) if it's a tie after looking at #1 then whichever version has the most stable SMP support is my next priority (I'm not sure it's even the GNAT library that's causing some of the reported SMP problems). 3) if you get some solid feedback from people who have had time to do some systematic testing between the alternatives, you can convert my vote to match your judgement of the consensus on which is the most stable version, and your judgement of which would be easist for you to package and maintain. In other words, I'd be willing to give up a little stability or a few more minor bugs if a version was a LOT easier for you to maintain: if two choices are about the same amount of work for you, then I'd go for the most stable. Sorry I can't give more positive feedback, but it's kind of a chicken and egg thing: I'm on GNAT 3.15 as long as that's the version in Debian: as soon as you package something else, I'll try it and if it handles everything I care about, I'll most likely switch to it. I'd like to get some of the features of Ada 2005, but not if the price is dropping the GMGPL on the runtime libraries or going to a less stable compiler. Steve