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From: dennison@telepath.com (Ted Dennison)
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Subject: Re: Development process in the Ada community
Date: 18 Apr 2002 08:43:46 -0700
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"Marin David Condic" <dont.bother.mcondic.auntie.spam@[acm.org> wrote in message news:<a9kne6$3qc$1@nh.pace.co.uk>...
> "Stephen Leake" <stephen.a.leake.1@gsfc.nasa.gov> wrote in message
> news:u4riadpq3.fsf@gsfc.nasa.gov...
> >
> > If ACT stops maintaining GNAT, and nobody else picks it up, it will
> > eventually be dropped from gcc.
> >
> The important observation is that unless there is some reasonably large body
> of people willing to pay money to get support from someone, GNAT would
> remain largely static. You might have a few hobyists who would tinker with

Considering that there are actually 2 Mac ports being supported solely
by users (one under very active development), I highly doubt that the
main compiler itself would suddenly loose all support w/o ACT. Its
just that with ACT around there are better things for volunteers to
spend their time on.

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