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From: "Steve Whalen" <SteveWhalen001@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: GNAT GPL Edition Maintenance and Upgrades
Date: 27 Oct 2005 22:10:16 -0700
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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