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: 103376,3e26dfa741e64e5f X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local01.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.scarlet.biz!news.scarlet.biz.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2005 13:42:20 -0500 From: Ludovic Brenta Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: GNAT GPL 2005 Edition is now available References: <1126875543.239666.325290@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <3467d$432b0af1$49956f8$22115@ALLTEL.NET> <9810292.iL9QpZxmrM@linux1.krischik.com> <87mzmbbn6x.fsf@ludovic-brenta.org> Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2005 20:41:52 +0200 Message-ID: <87ek7nbkpb.fsf@ludovic-brenta.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.110004 (No Gnus v0.4) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:whrXP8JSGyt15kH6EuEGnB9Od1w= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii NNTP-Posting-Host: 83.134.243.59 X-Trace: sv3-8XquXtZlyfYDCN39f65hem5utrIu3dbes+ZiLZiHS1Wr0WskHBf3KZ+azLf9EFOj2v40JXmRTgFXh1o!RpTna9vL+SfqSyryD4k/22PVDse3KJVxZRnDAb+mIR2bnV6UPktpYi1U8jAN/a0uKMkzRYKJ5g== X-Complaints-To: abuse@scarlet.be X-DMCA-Complaints-To: abuse@scarlet.biz X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.32 Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:4840 Date: 2005-09-17T20:41:52+02:00 List-Id: Ludovic Brenta writes: > Jacob Sparre Andersen writes: >> It was not compiling, but fixing/improving GNAT, I was worried >> about. Ludovic Brenta does a great job of compiling GNAT (and I >> even tried it myself once). What I am worried about is fixing >> errors in GNAT and extending GNAT to handle Ada2005. I am seriously >> afraid that _that_ is difficult. So far I've only sketched fixes >> for some errors in the GNAT implementation of the standard library. >> The actual compiler source code is huge enough to scare me away. > > Yes, fixing and extending GNAT is difficult and requires huge amounts > of time to build up the expertise. Fixing and extending libgnat > requires less time and expertise. If you are contemplating a fork, > you can restrict the fork to just libgnat, since the compiler's > license poses no problem to anyone. > > BTW, thanks for the compliments. I'd like to add this for the record: I do not encourage anyone to consider a fork. For one thing, I don't feel inclined to encourage people to write non-free software using free libraries like libgnat (but this is debatable and is being debated right now). For another thing, a fork is not currently required anyway because the FSF tree is still GMGPL. My comments above were purely technical. -- Ludovic Brenta.