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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,e6545823a74c7c29 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Markus Kuhn Subject: Re: GNAT Professional ? Date: 1998/09/15 Message-ID: <35FE3785.69B5DF3D@cl.cam.ac.uk>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 391296375 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <6t6ihg$dkn1@onews.collins.rockwell.com> <6t93vn$g8l$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <35F91C48.87202332@elca-matrix.ch> <6tc3bf$omu$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <35FABAEA.BBA81103@grep.net> <6tk2gb$tkf$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <35FE3057.B87B0FF@grep.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Organization: Cambridge University, Computer Laboratory Mime-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1998-09-15T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Paul Whittington wrote: > I'm not happy to hear that ACT's plans only include an annual public > release of GNAT :( > > We considered > using the public version of GNAT and relying on our own skills, as well > as the support of the wonderfully helpful folks that use GNAT around > the world, and came to the conclusion that, unlike the Linux folks > for instance, there just wasn't enough bug-fix/enhancement activity > going on with the public release of GNAT. It sounds like ACT's plans > support our observation :( Actually, there are plans to set up a more Linux-like maintained version of GNAT. We were just waiting on the next public release to have an up-to-date starting point, because most of the more urgent problems seem to be already addressed in the expected 3.11p release. See http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/linux-ada/ for more info and join the mailing list if you are interested to contribute. -- Markus G. Kuhn, Security Group, Computer Lab, Cambridge University, UK email: mkuhn at acm.org, home page: