Re: A proposal for Debian policy for Ada

["Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>]

On Tue, 18 May 2010 04:00:40 -0400, Stephen Leake wrote:

> "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> writes:
> 
>> BTW, is it possible to have one united Ada policy for all Linux
>> distributions?
> 
> First you have to enumerate "all Linux distributions"; I don't know how
> to do that.

That's simple: all distributions having GNAT on the list. (In effect GNAT
is the only Linux Ada compiler)

>> Linux Ada community is small, all people are known. 
> 
> Known to whom?

to anybody reading c.l.a?

>> Can't we use this as an advantage here?
> 
> It might be possible, if we can get everyone together.
> 
> Certainly Linux distributions that are derived from Debian should simply
> use the Debian Ada policy. 
> 
> We could define "Linux Ada community" as "people who respond to this
> post"; that is at least a practical working definition. I doubt it
> matches reality.

[Wondering] Is it possible that there exist GNAT distribution maintainers,
who do not read c.l.a? They must be experienced Ada programmers in order to
be able to do that job. There is not that many other Ada resources on the
Web. I would be happy if there were a conspiracy for Ada, driven by some
top secret agents, but a more realistic hypothesis is that "we" indeed know
these people.

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Dmitry A. Kazakov
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