Re: GNAT and GCC 3.0

[dewar@gnat.com (Robert Dewar)]

Juanma Barranquero <lektu@terra.es> wrote in message news:<c2sqrt454emql2jpkcemg268iqcju9psvs@4ax.com>...
> On 4 Oct 2001 11:38:27 -0700, dewar@gnat.com (Robert Dewar) wrote:
> 
> 
> I ask because although the GCC/GNAT integration is great, > I fear that quality may suffer.

This is not a commercial product. It will be maintained by
the gcc community as is true for other components of the
gnu project. Most certainly ACT will make contributions
to this, but we do not control this process, and cannot
make any guarantees about quality. The quality of any
component of gcc that is publicly maintained by the
community depends on the care of those involved.

Note that ACT as a company is not involved in the maintenance of GNAT
at gnu.org. That's because FSF
maintainers are individuals, not companies. I am the
official FSF maintainer for GNAT, which means that I
will coordinate the activities, but it does not mean
(and could not mean) that somehow I can guarantee the
quality of what is there at any particular point in
time.

The snapshot experimental versions of gcc components that
are available at gnu.org are a tremendous resource, and
allow the community to access and contribute to the latest
development, but you should not mistake them for commercial
products.

> 
> >Don't expect a fully usable public version of GNAT from these sources
> >for a while, 
> 
> BTW, the GNAT.Sockets package (renamed to GNAT_Sockets) works very
> well with 3.13p. Great!
> 
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