Re: In praise of Ada Freeware

[dewar@gnat.com (Robert Dewar)]

Kilgallen@eisner.decus.org.nospam (Larry Kilgallen) wrote in message news:<+uc0vOZmzK9b@eisner.encompasserve.org>...
> In article <87wv4r1uy5.fsf@deneb.enyo.de>, Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de> writes:
 
> The first one was my point -- those whose interest is more
> in encouraging use of Ada than in encouraging the use of GPL
> should remember the Freeware route.

I don't see how releasing free unsupported binaries (most typically
freeware does not come with sources) can help Ada (or anything else
for that matter).

On the other hand, the growing body of Free Software in Ada, most
particularly GNOME related stuff, starting with GtkAda, and GVD,
definitely do promote knowledge and use of Ada. We expect GVD to
be distributed widely as the preferred GDB visual interface for
GNOME. Interestingly the developers of GNOME were not at all
concerned with the idea of having Ada components as part of GNOME
(the only concern was that the Ada be compilable with GNAT, which
is of course the case).