Re: GCC 3.1 released

[dennison@telepath.com (Ted Dennison)]

Jerry van Dijk <jvandyk@attglobal.net> wrote in message news:<wk4rh4332y.fsf@attglobal.net>...
> dewar@gnat.com (Robert Dewar) writes:
> 
> > Our new approach for public releases, integration into the
> > GCC 3 tree, does not give any such guarantees. The plus is
> > that it is far closer to our development wavefront, the minus is that
> > it is likely to be somewhat unstable.
> 
> Just for clarification: DOes the GCC 3.1 release mean there will be no more
> public releases from ACT ?

I'd like to hear that too.

> -> if so, that means I will have to set up the GCC 3.1 build tree and ACATS
>    and start hunting bugs which may already have been solved by ACT, instead 
>    of using my time more productively.

I don't think that should be that much of an issue. They will want to
integrate fixes into the gcc baseline fairly quickly, because if you
hold back baseline changes, it becomes a huge chore to put them all in
later and keep things working. This is expecially true if other gcc
users are making changes directly to the baseline.

> All in all, if there are no more public releases for NT from ACT, we windows
> users need to organize ourself, to make sure that GNAT remains an alternative

I agree. I've been looking into this a bit. Somehow I doubt I'll have
the free time to do it all myself though. But I can certianly share
what little I've found out. We at least need some kind of "howto" for
Win32 builds.

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