Re: ACT announces availability of GNAT 3.14p

[dewar@gnat.com (Robert Dewar)]

John English <je@brighton.ac.uk> wrote in message news:<3C63B527.ABA4F1A7@brighton.ac.uk>...

> Wouldn't it make more sense to target a new GNAT version 
> to the current Red Hat version rather than one that's 
> about a year out of date?

The 3.14p sources were frozen some time ago, when Red Hat
version 7 was not in wide use. The current version of GNAT (e.g. the
sources at gnu.org) are indeed targetted for more
up to date versions. It is up to you whether you want to
operate at the bleeding edge with software that has not
been tested in the field extensively (the GNAT 5 version
at gnu.org), or you want to use a version that has been
extensively tested in the field (the 3.14p distribution).
But you can't have it both ways, if you want something that
is absolutely up to date, it will not have been extensively
tested. That's the way things are :-)