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Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 17:35:30 +0200
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Subject: Re: GNAT GPL 2005 Edition is now available
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Ludovic Brenta wrote:
> OK, here are the votes so far.  There are four contenders for the
> title of "next Ada compiler for Debian": GNAT GPL 2005 Edition
> (gnat-gpl below), gnat-3.4, gnat-4.0 and gnat-3.4+patches backported
> from gnat-gpl.

I'm not using the Debian gnat packages, and I have only started using 
Ada a few weeks ago. In my opinion this "GPL fork" makes Ada a lot less 
attractive. I wouldn't have any use for gnat-gpl, and for me Ada has not 
/that/ many advantages that I would pay $$$ for it.