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,d275ffeffdf83655 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Chris Morgan Subject: Re: Ada mode requests (Re: Ada vs C++ vs Java) Date: 1999/02/02 Message-ID: <873e4oqtz1.fsf@mihalis.ix.netcom.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 439948229 Sender: cm@mihalis.ix.netcom.com References: <78kk11$qmd$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <78ks1t$253$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <36affcb4.14065782@news.geccs.gecm.com> <36B1F27A.6762@gecm.com> <78tm5g$kb1$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <36b7695a.2630918@news.geccs.gecm.com> Organization: Linux Hackers Unlimited X-NETCOM-Date: Tue Feb 02 5:09:20 PM CST 1999 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-02-02T17:09:20-06:00 List-Id: 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 -- Chris Morgan