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From: Stefan Skoglund <stetson@ebox.tninet.se>
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Subject: Re: Contributing patches to GPL Ada projects (was: Is Ada dead?)
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Emmanuel Briot wrote:
> - In the specific case of GVD: port to other debuggers (we currently only have
>   gdb and part of jdb, it would be nice to have others like dbx, ...). This

Which requires some target with  dbx like some early BSD, SunOS of some
flavour
or HP-UX or IRIX.

And now we jump onto a big problem:
A number of guys with somewhat un-Linux machines has provided access to
different Open Source projects and well the access wasn't really used
in proper way ie no real work done which makes the machine-owner
somewhat pissed.

This reflects onto other OpenSource projects !!

To many of the current crop of OpenSource hackers has a pro-Linux i386
approach and doesn't really care about other targets.
Someone asked for some very linux-only changes on gnome-list lately.
Havoc told him that it was a bad idea due to portability reason.

But pls people when doing your OpenSource projects try to get access to
an IRIX machine of some flavor and or some SunOS machines.
It exists ppl who have such machines and which allows external ssh or
telnet access. the Irix c compiler is by default more picky about your 
programs than gcc for example.