From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,13b7917466f2d19 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-10-06 19:38:59 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail From: dewar@gnat.com (Robert Dewar) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: GNAT and GCC 3.0 Date: 6 Oct 2001 19:38:59 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com/ Message-ID: <5ee5b646.0110061838.7e3bbff0@posting.google.com> References: <9a575af3.0110020747.2304ce86@posting.google.com> <5ee5b646.0110022002.7ccde025@posting.google.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 205.232.38.14 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1002422339 1993 127.0.0.1 (7 Oct 2001 02:38:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 7 Oct 2001 02:38:59 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:13847 Date: 2001-10-07T02:38:59+00:00 List-Id: Ted Dennison 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.