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From: "Pascal Obry" <p.obry@der.edf.fr>
Subject: Re: JAVA and ADA JGNAT
Date: 2000/01/27
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Pascal Martin <pascal.martin@iname.com.nospam> a �crit dans le message :
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> No such thing seems to happen to GNAT. I suspect ACT is protecting its
> business using FUD and obscurity: "if you try to build your compiler
yourself,
> be warned". GNAT is complicated to build, and when you are in trouble,
> Dewar put the sales hat on. And it is not cheap: the GNAT trap. Look like
> also they don't want anyone to compete with them.

This is plain wrong.

Pascal, you should consider taking the sources and forking them. You can
then attrack
many developers and make a "more open" GNAT version.

Why don't you do that ?

I found that it is always too easy to complain and harder to fix things :) !

Pascal.

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