Re: GNAT and GCC 3.0

[dewar@gnat.com (Robert Dewar)]

Ted Dennison<dennison@telepath.com> wrote in message Hopefully "wave fronts" won't
> be much of an issue any more either, as they will just be rogue personal copies,
> as far as the baseline is concerned, until they are checked in.

Well since Ted is not a user of GNAT Professional, he is
a bit confused on what wavefronts are about, so I had better clarify
(the reference to "rogue personal copies"
being distinctly peculiar).

For users of GNAT Professional, ACT makes available in
some cases latest fully qualified development versions
to fix specific problems. These wavefronts have been fully
qualified against our test suites (ACATS, ACT test suite,
DEC test suite). Whereas the GCC baseline is never in general
qualified against these suites (it can't be because
these are not public suites). We will setup so that at
least ACATS testing is doable in the gnu.org environment,
but only a very small selection of the ACT test suite can
be made available for this purpose, and none of the DEC
test suite.

The ACT development and management of GNAT Professional will not be
affected in any way by the gnu.org baseline,
and the procedures for support of our customers will
remain unchanged. The only interaction is a mutually
beneficial exchange of patches, ACT will contribute
fixes to the baseline, and also from time to time new
features and development. On the other hand, hopefully
others will also contribute to the baseline, and in cases
where we think it is useful, these can also propagate to
the GNAT Professional sources.

In the long run, the idea is to keep the two trees more or
less in synch, but at any one time, there can be differences in both
directions.