Re: Will the defect with formal package parameters be fixed in GNAT GPL 2009?

["Björn Persson" <bjorn@xn--rombobjrn-67a.se>]

Eric Hughes wrote:

> On Apr 28, 2:40�pm, Bj�rn Persson <bj...@xn--rombobjrn-67a.se> wrote:
>> The Ada community's problem is a shortage of people who want to
>> contribute. There's no shortage of people who just want to whine.
> 
> As I see it, I'm the one with an expressed desire to contribute, and
> you're the one whining about me.

Your post from June 2008 does look like an attempt to contribute by
reporting a bug. Unfortunately you chose the wrong channel for that. I'll
assume that was an honest mistake so I don't blame you for it. However,
your refusal to correct the mistake now that you know what the right
channels are indicates that your desire to contribute has gone away.

As for me, I contributed a binding to Libmilter less than two weeks ago.
Earlier I have contributed a command line parameter handler and an
encoding-aware string handling library. I have also reported several bugs
in GNAT. I'll let everyone judge for themselves on whether that makes me a
contributor or a whiner.

> I would be
> perfectly happy to have someone else, perhaps one of those with
> different experiences, lay claim to the defect and report it.

I won't make that mistake again, but if you enter a bug report at
http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/ I will add a comment that I can reproduce it
with GCC 4.3.2 in Fedora 10.

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Bj�rn Persson
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