From: Chris Morgan <mihalis@ix.netcom.com>
Subject: Re: Ada mode requests (Re: Ada vs C++ vs Java)
Date: 1999/02/02
Date: 1999-02-02T17:09:20-06:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <873e4oqtz1.fsf@mihalis.ix.netcom.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 36b7695a.2630918@news.geccs.gecm.com
abuse@borpin.demon.co.uk (Brian Orpin) writes:
> What you have is not a general ada-mode for Emacs but a specific
> gnat-mode. That is a very poor implementation of the spirit of Emacs.
> You have basically hijacked the mode for your own ends and then forced it
> on the unsuspecting emacs Ada community by calling it ada-mode.
Nonsense. The name is irrelevant and I hardly think they have forced
anything on anyone. A free Ada compiler offers an Ada mode for a free
editor package. The distribitors call it ada-mode. You can take their
code and do what you like to it, rename any function, stick it on your
web server in a "corrected" form and so on.
I think you will find that Richard Stallman would be quite unconcerned
that Emacs Ada mode works best with GNU Ada. After all he only
recently suggested switching GNU libraries to GPL rather than LGPL
leaving commercial software out in the cold. Of course in this case I
doubt ACT will agree with him having demonstrated concern for the
wider Ada community more adequately at this stage.
> Fine but don't distribute it as ada-mode but as gnat-mode. A better
> solution would be to include all Ada general stuff in an ada-mode and
> have a separate gnat-mode that required the ada-mode. That would then
> enhance the abilities of Emacs for use with _all_ Ada compilers and not
> just gnat.
This is a perfectly fair suggestion and shows that you realise they
have done some work that helps users of other Ada compiler and some
that doesn't. I still don't see that as anything like forcing or
hijacking. It seems really petulant to complain that they wont split
up the version they offer to make this split easier for their
competition to take advantage of.
Chris
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Chris Morgan <mihalis at ix.netcom.com http://mihalis.net
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1999-01-26 0:00 Ada mode requests (Re: Ada vs C++ vs Java) bourguet
1999-01-26 0:00 ` dewar
[not found] ` <36affcb4.14065782@news.geccs.gecm.com>
1999-01-27 0:00 ` Simon Wright
1999-01-29 0:00 ` John McCabe
1999-01-30 0:00 ` dewar
[not found] ` <36b7695a.2630918@news.geccs.gecm.com>
1999-02-02 0:00 ` Chris Morgan [this message]
1999-02-03 0:00 ` John McCabe
1999-02-03 0:00 ` Chris Morgan
1999-02-04 0:00 ` John McCabe
1999-02-04 0:00 ` Chris Morgan
1999-02-05 0:00 ` John McCabe
1999-02-04 0:00 ` EMACS Ada Mode Maintenance dewar
1999-02-04 0:00 ` dennison
1999-02-05 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-05 0:00 ` briot
1999-02-05 0:00 ` dewar
1999-02-05 0:00 ` John McCabe
1999-02-05 0:00 ` John McCabe
1999-02-05 0:00 ` John McCabe
1999-02-05 0:00 ` dewar
1999-02-05 0:00 ` John McCabe
1999-02-07 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-01-27 0:00 ` Ada mode requests (Re: Ada vs C++ vs Java) bourguet
1999-01-27 0:00 ` John McCabe
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
1999-01-12 0:00 Ada vs C++ vs Java Leszek Sczaniecki
1999-01-13 0:00 ` Erik Funkenbusch
1999-01-14 0:00 ` Gerhard Menzl
1999-01-14 0:00 ` John Birch
1999-01-15 0:00 ` Gerhard Menzl
1999-01-15 0:00 ` John Birch
1999-01-16 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-01-18 0:00 ` dennison
1999-01-18 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-01-19 0:00 ` Crazy Pete
1999-01-19 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-01-20 0:00 ` Christopher Browne
1999-01-19 0:00 ` bill
1999-01-20 0:00 ` dennison
1999-01-20 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-01-20 0:00 ` dennison
1999-01-21 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-01-21 0:00 ` Al Christians
1999-01-21 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-01-21 0:00 ` Al Christians
1999-01-22 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-01-21 0:00 ` bill_1
1999-01-22 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-01-22 0:00 ` Ada mode requests (Re: Ada vs C++ vs Java) dennison
1999-01-22 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-01-22 0:00 ` dennison
1999-01-22 0:00 ` David C. Hoos, Sr.
1999-01-24 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-01-22 0:00 ` dennison
1999-01-22 0:00 ` David C. Hoos, Sr.
1999-01-24 0:00 ` dewar
1999-01-28 0:00 ` John McCabe
1999-01-29 0:00 ` dewar
1999-01-29 0:00 ` John McCabe
1999-01-30 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-01-30 0:00 ` John McCabe
1999-01-29 0:00 ` John McCabe
1999-01-25 0:00 ` John McCabe
[not found] ` <36afc1ec.20165240@news.geccs.gecm.com>
1999-01-26 0:00 ` John McCabe
1999-01-27 0:00 ` dennison
[not found] ` <36b019e5.897220@news.geccs.gecm.com>
1999-01-28 0:00 ` John McCabe
1999-01-29 0:00 ` dewar
1999-01-29 0:00 ` Samuel Tardieu
1999-01-30 0:00 ` John McCabe
[not found] ` <36b170cd.1793333@news.geccs.gecm.com>
1999-01-29 0:00 ` John McCabe
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