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From: John McCabe <john.mccabe@gecm.com>
Subject: Re: Ada mode requests (Re: Ada vs C++ vs Java)
Date: 1999/02/04
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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