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=0.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,2e91a32061bde112 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Florian Weimer Subject: Re: JAVA and ADA JGNAT Date: 2000/01/26 Message-ID: <877lgxuquu.fsf@deneb.cygnus.argh.org>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 577769502 References: <862sv5$sug$1@pirates.Armstrong.EDU> <862t3o$9aa1@news.cis.okstate.edu> <86k8r6$alp$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <86kpbu$aik1@news.cis.okstate.edu> <86la8r$519$1@nnrp1.deja.com> Mail-Copies-To: never Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: abuse@cygnus.argh.org X-Trace: deneb.cygnus.argh.org 948878729 7377 192.168.1.2 (26 Jan 2000 09:25:29 GMT) Organization: Penguin on board User-Agent: Gnus/5.0804 (Gnus v5.8.4) Emacs/20.4 Mime-Version: 1.0 Reply-To: Florian Weimer NNTP-Posting-Date: 26 Jan 2000 09:25:29 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-01-26T09:25:29+00:00 List-Id: Robert Dewar 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).