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,f16a645029bb2cdd X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!postnews.google.com!g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: "Steve Whalen" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: The GNU Ada compiler Date: 23 Dec 2005 16:28:34 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1135384114.865341.276730@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> References: <8352037.GvZVdQSXN4@linux1.krischik.com> <10516182.EDYboSzEoF@linux1.krischik.com> <1500332.U7CjsdsL0l@linux1.krischik.com> <1691618.MhViCBI7GN@linux1.krischik.com> <8950475.JSDDGHQjBG@linux1.krischik.com> <1135119585.533549.119130@g49g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <4443086.LdpmeUz9oX@linux1.krischik.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 68.238.129.35 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Trace: posting.google.com 1135384120 30233 127.0.0.1 (24 Dec 2005 00:28:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 24 Dec 2005 00:28:40 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: G2/0.2 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915 Firefox/1.0.7,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com; posting-host=68.238.129.35; posting-account=GBMmzA0AAABrZ0dHOASa3b2Cdf-RliH9 Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:6998 Date: 2005-12-23T16:28:34-08:00 List-Id: Martin Krischik wrote: > Currently I concentrate much on the GNAT/GPL but I think that may change > when gcc 4.1 is out of the door. Apart from that I monitor the download > stats to see what is appreciated and what is waisted effort. > > Interestingly enough currently source-rpm are more in demand then actual > binaries. I'm hoping your efforts will attract maintainers for a GMGPL Ada on each of the platforms and OS's. I know you can't do all of them by yourself .... Instead of monitoring the Ada download statistics, I'd suggest monitoring the download statistics for gcc. Since C and C++ are very functional compilers within gcc but Ada is seldom present let alone stable, I think gcc's popularity on a platform/OS gives a better indication of where Ada _should_ be, even if it's not there now. It's a chicken or egg kind of thing. Nobody is downloading the Ada compilers because if you want gnat 3.15p it is still available in releases from AdaCore around the net. Nobody bothers downloading any newer GNAT release because the versions I've come across all seem to be broken in one way or another. Actually, since NYU is _not_ mirroring 3.15p any more, it would be helpful if you used sourceforge to house all of the 3.15p versions, so we would have a single place to send anyone interested in Ada. Then as newer versions became stable for each platform / OS combination, you could push 3.15p down into an "older version" status. Steve