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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: a07f3367d7,5f6322415d6639e0 X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,public,usenet X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!news.cs.univ-paris8.fr!proxad.net!feeder1-2.proxad.net!cleanfeed2-a.proxad.net!nnrp17-1.free.fr!not-for-mail From: Samuel Tardieu Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Will the defect with formal package parameters be fixed in GNAT GPL 2009? References: <558b7171-809b-4259-8679-4b4cff9de519@b6g2000pre.googlegroups.com> <9d86256d-a0f3-4c43-82f9-98bb4641be69@s38g2000prg.googlegroups.com> <87r5zeru4p.fsf@willow.rfc1149.net> Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 20:23:58 +0200 Message-ID: <877i16rm4h.fsf@willow.rfc1149.net> User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:HNGfhpTn7V9XykiS/ZPTe2lsjZw= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Leafnode-NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:6f8:37a:2::2 Organization: Guest of ProXad - France NNTP-Posting-Date: 27 Apr 2009 20:25:01 MEST NNTP-Posting-Host: 91.121.19.179 X-Trace: 1240856701 news-4.free.fr 20684 91.121.19.179:40168 X-Complaints-To: abuse@proxad.net Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:5564 Date: 2009-04-27T20:25:01+02:00 List-Id: >>>>> "Eric" == Eric Hughes writes: Eric> I don't use "pristine GNAT" because I use Windows, I have no Eric> patience for system administration, and I use precompiled Eric> binaries. I get precompiled binaries from the Libre site. I do not Eric> get precompiled binaries from gnu.org. There exist at least five ways to get GNAT: (1) Through a contract with AdaCore. This includes an very good commercial support. (2) From the libre.adacore.com site. This comes with no support unless you are an academic user qualifying for the GAP program. (3) From the Free Software Foundation, with a bug tracker and some volunteers working on bugs through an open process, provided that good bug reports are submitted. (4) From Cygwin, with precompiled Windows binaries, and the FSF GCC bug tracker can be used. (5) From various free software distribution vendors, such as Debian GNU/Linux, each with their own bug reporting system. >From these five options you chose the second one, which is the only one with no support at all for non-academic users. Unless you are willing to switch, you're on your own, and since you can't report your problem through a proper channel, it is unlikely to get fixed unless someone in another categorie reports it. Sam -- Samuel Tardieu -- sam@rfc1149.net -- http://www.rfc1149.net/