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: 103376,30a9bb3017fa58dd X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,959627a08fbc77c5 X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public From: David Starner Subject: Re: EGCS & GNAT Was (Re: GNAT versions) Date: 1999/04/25 Message-ID: <37234DCA.A509D0D9@aasaa.ofe.org>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 470739168 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <3718ccb6.3581307@news.mindspring.com> <3718d384.254178@news.pacbell.net> <1999Apr20.073527.1@eisner> <7fi2k3$lv9$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <371C99DD.F15ADC4B@spam.com> <7fkkoi$ui$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <371DF7CE.C7D7C1F@spam.com> <1999Apr21.142617.1@eisner> <371E2F2A.662C8F4F@spam.com> <7fndu7$im4$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <371F8B02.9BD7045F@spam.com> <7fomsh$p8u$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <86lnfjx5rx.fsf@coulee.tdb.com> <7fq3ad$9k$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <7fua23$fgh$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> X-Accept-Language: en Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Organization: Oklahoma State University Mime-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,gnu.misc.discuss Date: 1999-04-25T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Robert Dewar wrote: > > In article , > Geoffrey KEATING wrote: > > This is certainly true for egcs, and IIRC even for gcc > > there is anonymous CVS access. > > But surely you do not think that the current EGCS snapshot > does not represent the internal Cygnus development tree > (actually you may think this, I quite often run into people > under this remarkable illusion! But the internal Cygnus development tree doesn't represent the EGCS development tree either. A great deal of development goes on in the EGCS developement tree, and the internal Cygnus development tree contains some stuff that is not suited for the EGCS tree (for example: a enviroment variable that the compiler reads for command line options; they deem this too error prone for EGCS). g77, if I understand correctly, is completely developed in the outside tree. I still don't understand the great worries about GNAT beta versions getting distributed. I don't see problems arising from the EGCS snapshots being distributed; if you download a snapshot you know what you're getting. I don't see how big problems would arise from releasing GNAT wavefront versions. It certainly doesn't compel ACT to distribute beta version, though. While it's on topic, since EGCS is now the official GCC tree, when will there be a version of GNAT that builds on EGCS? It would be much more convientent for those of use running EGCS.