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-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,8a402d78988bdf2b X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-12-23 02:20:57 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!newsfeed2.dallas1.level3.net!news.level3.com!news-out.visi.com!petbe.visi.com!proxad.net!freenix!enst.fr!beeblebrox!nobody From: Samuel Tardieu Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: GNU/Linux distro wars Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2003 11:18:21 +0100 Organization: Avian Carrier & Friends Message-ID: <87r7yvhm6q.fsf@inf.enst.fr> References: <%VlDb.5454$Pg1.1321@newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: willow.enst.fr Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: avanie.enst.fr 1072174758 17140 137.194.161.3 (23 Dec 2003 10:19:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@enst.fr NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2003 10:19:18 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.1003 (Gnus v5.10.3) XEmacs/21.5 (celery, berkeley-unix) Cancel-Lock: sha1:TK4DlJV6rAbaE+kEgezCysIw0e8= X-Leafnode-NNTP-Posting-Host: 127.0.0.1 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:3741 Date: 2003-12-23T11:18:21+01:00 List-Id: Warren> I did a FreeBSD stint for a while (good for firewalls), but the Ada Warren> support there seemed to be on the decline. Ludovic> Now Sam Tardieu might not like that. He is the former Ludovic> maintainer of several Ada packages for Debian, and he Ludovic> switched to FreeBSD where he maintains gnat among others. Bad information: Dan Eischen is the current maintainer for this port :) And I bet that the quality of GNAT for FreeBSD will still improve in the near future. Sam -- Samuel Tardieu -- sam@rfc1149.net -- http://www.rfc1149.net/sam