From: Florian Weimer <someone@deneb.cygnus.argh.org>
Subject: Re: JAVA and ADA JGNAT
Date: 2000/01/26
Date: 2000-01-26T09:25:29+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <877lgxuquu.fsf@deneb.cygnus.argh.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 86la8r$519$1@nnrp1.deja.com
Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com> writes:
> Actually I think part of what goes on here is that ACT is
> *more* open than a lot of the Linux and GCC development.
If you mean Linux = kernel, this is wrong, I think. Release cycles are
very short, and if there's a fix for a particular problem, you can get it
at once and don't have to wait for the next release. In the past, I've
struggled with several GNAT bugs although they had already been fixed in
ACT's internal version. Maybe you can obtain these fixes if you've got
a support contract, but with other free software, this is not necessary.
> If David is saying that ALL developments should be made
> completely open day by day, all I can say is that I don't know
> of many open source or free software development projects that
> work that way, with the possible exception of GNOME (and a
> number of small scale projects).
XEmacs (as opposed to Emacs) and Mozilla are among the largest free
software projects and are managed in the Bazaar style. The Linux
kernel is similar, but in a way completely different, because there are
a couple of reviewers (with Linus at the top) who decide which goes in
to the standard distribution. Nowadays, most free software projects of
a certain size offer public read-only access to a CVS repository, and
usually, it isn't a problem to get write access if you want to contribute
code (perhaps after signing a copyright assignment to the FSF).
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Thread overview: 61+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-01-18 0:00 JAVA and ADA JGNAT Mark Burge
2000-01-18 0:00 ` David Starner
2000-01-19 0:00 ` Ed Falis
2000-01-19 0:00 ` David Starner
2000-01-19 0:00 ` Ed Falis
2000-01-25 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-01-25 0:00 ` Preben Randhol
2000-01-25 0:00 ` David Starner
2000-01-25 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-01-26 0:00 ` Aidan Skinner
2000-01-27 0:00 ` Florian Weimer
2000-02-05 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-01-26 0:00 ` Florian Weimer [this message]
2000-01-26 0:00 ` Gautier
2000-01-26 0:00 ` Florian Weimer
2000-01-26 0:00 ` David Starner
2000-02-05 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-01-26 0:00 ` Jean-Marc Bourguet
2000-01-26 0:00 ` Florian Weimer
2000-02-05 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-01-26 0:00 ` Pascal Martin
2000-01-26 0:00 ` David Starner
2000-01-26 0:00 ` Aidan Skinner
2000-01-27 0:00 ` Florian Weimer
2000-01-27 0:00 ` Pascal Obry
2000-01-27 0:00 ` Jean-Marc Bourguet
2000-01-27 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-01-27 0:00 ` Chris Morgan
2000-01-28 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-01-30 0:00 ` Stefan Skoglund
2000-01-31 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-02-05 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-01-28 0:00 ` Florian Weimer
2000-01-31 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-02-05 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-02-05 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-02-05 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-01-26 0:00 ` Alfred Hilscher
2000-01-26 0:00 ` David Starner
2000-01-31 0:00 ` Pascal F. Martin
2000-01-31 0:00 ` reason67
2000-01-31 0:00 ` Preben Randhol
2000-02-05 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-02-05 0:00 ` Chris Morgan
2000-02-06 0:00 ` Pascal Martin
2000-02-06 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-02-06 0:00 ` Aidan Skinner
2000-02-07 0:00 ` Pascal Martin
2000-02-08 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-02-11 0:00 ` Wes Groleau
2000-01-26 0:00 ` Preben Randhol
2000-01-26 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-02-05 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-01-26 0:00 ` David Starner
2000-01-26 0:00 ` Preben Randhol
2000-01-26 0:00 ` David Starner
2000-01-27 0:00 ` Preben Randhol
2000-02-05 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-02-05 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-01-19 0:00 ` Gautier
2000-01-19 0:00 ` Preben Randhol
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