From: "Steve Whalen" <SteveWhalen001@hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: GNAT GPL Edition Maintenance and Upgrades
Date: 27 Oct 2005 22:10:16 -0700
Date: 2005-10-27T22:10:16-07:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1130476216.365009.9090@g47g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 4360b346$0$22526$9b4e6d93@newsread4.arcor-online.net
Georg Bauhaus wrote:
> Steve Whalen wrote:
> > The FSF CVS tree is NOT equivalent because "we" have to compile usable
> > binaries on whichever platform we want to use the Ada compiler on,
>
> You don't have to compile GNAT yourself if you are using Windows,
> or GNU/Linux (or Solaris, I believe), or Mac OS X. That should cover
> a number of non-embedded platforms, don't you think?
> In fact, Debian/GNU Linux has an integrated set of additional libraries
> for use with GNAT.
I'm sorry I started out that paragraph with "compiling". I
should have skipped that and gone straight to the real problem
with the FSF tree releases:
>> I can't think of a single time so far when the FSF gcc Ada
>> has been as "good" as any of the AdaCore public releases
>> because of the difficulty of getting a "stable" version of
>> Ada in the CVS repository at the same time the rest of gcc
>> was "stable".
This is why we will miss the AdaCore GMGPL public releases.
The GMGPL code may be buried in the FSF source tree, but the C
and C++ languages still drive the FSF "releases". Ada is just
along for the ride and if I'm wrong I hope someone will correct
me, but I don't recall a single time since Ada "joined" the FSF
tree that the FSF release produced an Ada compiler that was
equal in quality to any of the AdaCore public releases.
The C++ compiler in an FSF release is usually just fine, but Ada
does not have "the clout" to hold up an FSF/gcc release until
the Ada portion is "stable".
Steve
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Thread overview: 79+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-10-04 20:15 GNAT GPL Edition Maintenance and Upgrades Marc A. Criley
2005-10-05 8:04 ` Ludovic Brenta
2005-10-05 8:58 ` michael bode
2005-10-05 9:39 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2005-10-05 11:10 ` Ludovic Brenta
2005-10-05 12:50 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2005-10-05 14:06 ` Ludovic Brenta
2005-10-05 14:40 ` Ludovic Brenta
2005-10-05 15:38 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2005-10-05 16:22 ` Poul-Erik Andreasen
2005-10-05 18:28 ` Dr. Adrian Wrigley
2005-10-13 21:13 ` wojtek
2005-10-05 14:06 ` Alex R. Mosteo
2005-10-05 15:02 ` Ludovic Brenta
2005-10-05 21:25 ` Björn Persson
2005-10-06 1:18 ` David Trudgett
2005-10-06 7:18 ` David Trudgett
2005-10-06 8:03 ` Georg Bauhaus
2005-10-06 8:53 ` Hyman Rosen
2005-10-05 12:25 ` Marc A. Criley
2005-10-05 18:17 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2005-10-05 18:28 ` Ludovic Brenta
2005-10-06 18:20 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2005-10-06 19:20 ` Hyman Rosen
2005-10-06 22:27 ` Simon Wright
2005-10-07 5:25 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2005-10-07 5:54 ` Simon Wright
2005-10-07 18:43 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2005-10-08 6:18 ` Simon Wright
2005-10-07 11:57 ` Simon Clubley
2005-10-07 12:29 ` Georg Bauhaus
2005-10-07 12:50 ` Jeff Creem
2005-10-25 15:44 ` Samuel Tardieu
2005-10-25 16:35 ` Szymon Guz
2005-10-26 13:43 ` Martin Krischik
2005-10-25 20:47 ` Georg Bauhaus
2005-10-25 21:13 ` Samuel Tardieu
2005-10-25 22:29 ` Georg Bauhaus
2005-10-25 22:41 ` Samuel Tardieu
2005-10-26 10:53 ` Georg Bauhaus
2005-10-26 10:12 ` Steve Whalen
2005-10-27 11:02 ` Georg Bauhaus
2005-10-27 13:39 ` Hyman Rosen
2005-10-27 14:05 ` Szymon Guz
2005-10-27 14:25 ` Pascal Obry
2005-10-27 15:50 ` Georg Bauhaus
2005-10-27 16:59 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2005-10-27 17:09 ` Szymon Guz
2005-10-27 17:33 ` Pascal Obry
2005-10-27 19:18 ` Georg Bauhaus
2005-10-27 19:49 ` Szymon Guz
2005-10-27 19:14 ` Georg Bauhaus
2005-10-28 6:41 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2005-10-30 14:17 ` Martin Krischik
2005-10-30 17:44 ` Jeff Creem
2005-10-30 19:53 ` Anh Vo
2005-10-28 5:10 ` Steve Whalen [this message]
2005-10-28 11:18 ` Georg Bauhaus
2005-10-28 11:47 ` Maciej Sobczak
2005-10-28 12:34 ` none
2005-10-28 12:35 ` Emmanuel Briot
2005-10-28 12:35 ` Martin Dowie
2005-10-28 14:14 ` Maciej Sobczak
2005-10-28 21:35 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2005-10-29 12:25 ` Jeff Creem
2005-10-28 5:41 ` Steve Whalen
2005-10-28 8:38 ` Hyman Rosen
2005-10-28 10:20 ` Niklas Holsti
2005-10-28 18:07 ` Michael Bode
2005-10-31 14:58 ` Marc A. Criley
2005-11-01 16:54 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2005-11-01 16:40 ` Georg Bauhaus
2005-11-02 16:15 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2005-11-02 17:36 ` Steffen Huber
2005-11-02 19:08 ` Martin Dowie
2005-11-02 19:09 ` Stefan Bellon
2005-10-28 18:52 ` Larry Kilgallen
2005-11-02 21:14 ` Larry Kilgallen
2005-10-07 23:11 ` Björn Persson
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