From: John McCabe <john.mccabe@gecm.com>
Subject: Re: Ada mode requests (Re: Ada vs C++ vs Java)
Date: 1999/02/04
Date: 1999-02-04T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <36B9DA0A.40D0@gecm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 874sp34287.fsf@mihalis.ix.netcom.com
Chris Morgan wrote:
> john@assen.demon.co.uk.nospam (John McCabe) writes:
> > The point is that there is an *official* ada-mode that is bundled
> > with GNU Emacs and is maintained by an *official* maintainer. By
> > making significant changes that affect the generality of the package
> > without renaming it has confused the issue.
<..snip..>
> official maintainer of GCC. That doesn't mean the egcs team did
> anything bad by branching the source code. ACT is the official
> maintainer of GNAT, but Markus and his merry band of "GNAT for Linux"
> hackers will probably be distributing patched up versions of the
> public GNAT releases in the not too distant future. Branching and
> merging is the way of life for these projects.
<..snip..>
> This kind of process has given us Gnus, XEmacs and XFree86. In each
> case some people have said "oh please don't confuse the issue" but
> something good has come of it (ok, I'm not sure if anyone complained
Chris,
You may notice that all the parts of your message I have left in here
have referred to alternative version brached from the original e.g.:
EGCS - Not GCC
GNAT For Linux - Not just GNAT
XEmacs - Not Emacs
Gnus - Not GNUS (Subtle this one!)
XFree86 - Not ??
ada-mode (from ACT) - ada-mode (from FSF)
So basically everything that people have branched off from an original
package has been called something different *except* for ada-mode from
ACT. This is the point I'm trying to make.
ACT's ada-mode, for GNAT users *may* be the best thing since sliced
bread, but it's still called ada-mode, not gnat-mode. I (and Brian)
obviously are really just suggesting that ada-mode should simply have
had the gnat-specific enhancements added asa a separate package
(gnat-mode) that required ada-mode. This is not a difficult thing to do,
and now we've started to discuss things, it seems that we may all get
what we want to some extent.
John
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1999-01-26 0:00 Ada mode requests (Re: Ada vs C++ vs Java) bourguet
1999-01-26 0:00 ` dewar
[not found] ` <36affcb4.14065782@news.geccs.gecm.com>
1999-01-27 0:00 ` Simon Wright
1999-01-29 0:00 ` John McCabe
1999-01-30 0:00 ` dewar
[not found] ` <36b7695a.2630918@news.geccs.gecm.com>
1999-02-02 0:00 ` Chris Morgan
1999-02-03 0:00 ` John McCabe
1999-02-03 0:00 ` Chris Morgan
1999-02-04 0:00 ` John McCabe [this message]
1999-02-04 0:00 ` Chris Morgan
1999-02-05 0:00 ` John McCabe
1999-02-04 0:00 ` EMACS Ada Mode Maintenance dewar
1999-02-04 0:00 ` dennison
1999-02-05 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-05 0:00 ` briot
1999-02-05 0:00 ` John McCabe
1999-02-05 0:00 ` dewar
1999-02-05 0:00 ` John McCabe
1999-02-05 0:00 ` John McCabe
1999-02-05 0:00 ` dewar
1999-02-05 0:00 ` John McCabe
1999-02-07 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-01-27 0:00 ` Ada mode requests (Re: Ada vs C++ vs Java) bourguet
1999-01-27 0:00 ` John McCabe
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
1999-01-12 0:00 Ada vs C++ vs Java Leszek Sczaniecki
1999-01-13 0:00 ` Erik Funkenbusch
1999-01-14 0:00 ` Gerhard Menzl
1999-01-14 0:00 ` John Birch
1999-01-15 0:00 ` Gerhard Menzl
1999-01-15 0:00 ` John Birch
1999-01-16 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-01-18 0:00 ` dennison
1999-01-18 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-01-19 0:00 ` Crazy Pete
1999-01-19 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-01-20 0:00 ` Christopher Browne
1999-01-19 0:00 ` bill
1999-01-20 0:00 ` dennison
1999-01-20 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-01-20 0:00 ` dennison
1999-01-21 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-01-21 0:00 ` Al Christians
1999-01-21 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-01-21 0:00 ` Al Christians
1999-01-22 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-01-21 0:00 ` bill_1
1999-01-22 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-01-22 0:00 ` Ada mode requests (Re: Ada vs C++ vs Java) dennison
1999-01-22 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-01-22 0:00 ` dennison
1999-01-22 0:00 ` David C. Hoos, Sr.
1999-01-24 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-01-22 0:00 ` David C. Hoos, Sr.
1999-01-24 0:00 ` dewar
1999-01-28 0:00 ` John McCabe
1999-01-29 0:00 ` dewar
1999-01-29 0:00 ` John McCabe
1999-01-30 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-01-30 0:00 ` John McCabe
1999-01-29 0:00 ` John McCabe
1999-01-25 0:00 ` John McCabe
[not found] ` <36afc1ec.20165240@news.geccs.gecm.com>
1999-01-26 0:00 ` John McCabe
1999-01-27 0:00 ` dennison
[not found] ` <36b019e5.897220@news.geccs.gecm.com>
1999-01-28 0:00 ` John McCabe
[not found] ` <36b170cd.1793333@news.geccs.gecm.com>
1999-01-29 0:00 ` John McCabe
1999-01-29 0:00 ` dewar
1999-01-29 0:00 ` Samuel Tardieu
1999-01-30 0:00 ` John McCabe
1999-01-22 0:00 ` dennison
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