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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,959627a08fbc77c5 X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,30a9bb3017fa58dd X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Robert Dewar Subject: Re: GNAT versions ( was :Ada compiler for PC?) Date: 1999/04/23 Message-ID: <7fqm1n$igj$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 470071835 References: <3718ccb6.3581307@news.mindspring.com> <3718d384.254178@news.pacbell.net> <1999Apr20.073527.1@eisner> <7fi2k3$lv9$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <371C99DD.F15ADC4B@spam.com> <7fkkoi$ui$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <371DF7CE.C7D7C1F@spam.com> <1999Apr21.142617.1@eisner> <371E2F2A.662C8F4F@spam.com> <7fndu7$im4$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <371F8B02.9BD7045F@spam.com> <7fomsh$p8u$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <86lnfjx5rx.fsf@coulee.tdb.com> <7fp5na$loj$1@cf01.edf.fr> <7fqb0h$7r7$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> X-Http-Proxy: 1.0 x13.dejanews.com:80 (Squid/1.1.22) for client 205.232.38.14 Organization: Deja News - The Leader in Internet Discussion X-Article-Creation-Date: Fri Apr 23 20:43:36 1999 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,gnu.misc.discuss X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/4.04 [en] (OS/2; I) Date: 1999-04-23T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <7fqb0h$7r7$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>, dennison@telepath.com wrote: > Given several cases of beer and an evening to blow, I'm > sure we could all as a group come up with dozens of > "better" development models for Gnat. But who > really cares? ACT certainly doesn't have to, and I don't > even think I do... How about using that case of beer and the evening to discuss how to persuade others in the Ada vendor community (compilers .. Greenhills, Rational, Aonix, OCS ... etc tools, Claw, etc etc) to look more closely at the free softwaremodel for their products. I quite understand that people get exercised over the issue of whether they see the latest feature in GNAT in June as opposed to July, but what would really help the Ada community is if more Ada suppliers would climb on the open software bandwagon, preferably using proper free software licenses! It's good that GNAT has persuaded some more free releases (e.g. the crippled versions of the Aonix compiler, and CLAW), but it would be *so* much better if tools like this could genuinely be made openly available without any limitations or "demo" versions. Don't assume it can't happen. The open source movement is gathering a lot of steam. When we started out on this track 6 years ago, we were pioneering, now we are in the mainstream! Robert Dewar Ada Core Technologies -----------== Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==---------- http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own