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From: dewar@gnat.com (Robert Dewar)
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Subject: Re: Next public release of GNAT(?)
Date: 9 Jan 2002 17:44:35 -0800
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Jean-Marc Bourguet <jm@bourguet.org> wrote in message news:<3c3c0ca8$0$3190$626a54ce@news.free.fr>...

> AFAIK, what is present in the CVS tree is an evolution of 
> GNAT 3.14
> (which is still based on gcc 2.8).

Sort of, see later comments in this thread

> 
> BTW, personnally, I'd not make public an executable I manage to build
> from non released sources.
> 
> Yours,


No reason not to make such public releases if they clearly
state the provenance. If you build from shaky snapshots,
the result may be shaky, but that does not mean it is not
interesting for experimental, research and hobbyist 
purposes. Anyone using such a release for critical
production is certainly asking for trouble! I would
encourage people to make such builds available, because
not everyone can achieve these builds on their own.