EMACS Ada Mode Maintenance

[dewar@gnat.com]

This is to announce that Richard Stallman has formally
designated Emmanuel Briot as the official maintainer
of Ada mode for EMACS. Emmanuel Briot is an employee of
Ada Core Technologies, but will be doing this work with
a GNU hat on, and of course all work will be assigned to
the Free Software Foundation. Ada Core Technologies is
happy to make this contribution of effort to the continued
development of GNU software.

With regard to recent discussions on this newsgroup,
Richard Stallman's view is that it is proper to give
precedence to GNAT in the development of this facility,
since "GNU programs should generally give preference to
other free software, and especially to other GNU software."

The policy here will be to include all useful
contributions, and to provide facilities that are generally
useful. Certainly there will be no deliberate attempt to
impede the use of EMACS with Ada compilers other than GNAT,
no one suggests that would be reasonable, so we expect that
many of the facilities of Ada mode in EMACS will continue
to be usable by other compilers. However, in accordance
with the direction requested by Richard Stallman, providing
special functionality for use with compilers other than
GNAT will not be a priority in our continued development
effort.

We will rejuvenate and maintain the EMACS Ada mode mailing
list, and we will make an announcement here concerning that
list in the near future. We suggest that further
discussions of technical details for Ada mode can most
fruitfully be held on that mailing list.

Robert Dewar
Ada Core Technologies

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