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: 103376,30a9bb3017fa58dd X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,959627a08fbc77c5 X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public From: Robert Dewar Subject: Re: GNAT versions ( was :Ada compiler for PC?) Date: 1999/04/28 Message-ID: <7g6uhv$v1p$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 471843715 References: <7fndu7$im4$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <7fud3l$hqi$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <7g0bdf$3q9$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <7g3klg$26p$1@rtl.cygnus.com> <7g4oed$ko$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <7g5ju3$qpb$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> X-Http-Proxy: 1.0 x15.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: Wed Apr 28 12:22:26 1999 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,gnu.misc.discuss X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/4.04 [en] (OS/2; I) Date: 1999-04-28T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article It *does* correspond to the reality of the situation as > Cygnus invests considerable manpower in the process. In > a way, they are preparing well-trodden paths that are > convenient for their purposes by investing appropriate > resources. If they are not interested in some direction > of work, they'll leave it to other parties. Yes, of course, anyone putting work into gcc is inclined to put in things that they find interesting and useful, and who ever puts in more effort will have more influence. But there is nothing improper, suspicious, or in any way negative about that. A similar situation occurs with GNAT. Since ACT makes almost 100% of the changes to GNAT currently (we only very rarely get patches submitted, almost all of which have been immediately incorporated), ACT gets to make the decisions on which features go in etc. This is of course based primarily on the needs of our paying customers. (two of the the most notable volunteer contributions to GNAT were the DOS port by Doug Rupp, and the OS/2 work by Geert Bosch, and not only did we acquire this work, but Doug and Geert now work full time for ACT/ACTE.) If the GNAT/Linux project ends up encouraging more useful contributions, particularly in the tools and binding area, then it will begin to have a significant influence on the direction of the GNAT development, and that is welcome all round as far as I am concerned. There are some other interesting developments such as David Botton's work on COM interfacing on NT, and ACT is definitely interested in working closely with anyone doing useful development that is GNAT related. Robert Dewar Ada Core Technologies -----------== Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==---------- http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own