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: 103376,9960fa51a4a478af X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-02-10 10:22:39 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail From: dewar@gnat.com (Robert Dewar) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: ACT announces availability of GNAT 3.14p Date: 10 Feb 2002 10:22:39 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com/ Message-ID: <5ee5b646.0202101022.57ed7cfd@posting.google.com> References: <5ee5b646.0201301849.4e951bcb@posting.google.com> <5ee5b646.0202071709.11b3f88c@posting.google.com> <3C63B527.ABA4F1A7@brighton.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: 205.232.38.244 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1013365359 9841 127.0.0.1 (10 Feb 2002 18:22:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 10 Feb 2002 18:22:39 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:19836 Date: 2002-02-10T18:22:39+00:00 List-Id: John English 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 about a year out of date?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 :-)