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From: Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>
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Subject: Re: New mainainer for emcas ada2005 mode
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Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org> writes:

> Martin Krischik writes:
>> Ludovic Brenta wrote:
>>> Please consider joining the upstream emacs project instead.
>>
>> Sure. But joining the upstream is also an upstream struggle. Ada is then
>> only one minor part of the hole project. For example: In the vim
>> development the runtime files/scripts are only changed when a new version
>> comes out. vim 7.0 is fairly new so it can take quite a while until vim 7.1
>> comes out.
>
> That is a short-sighted argument.  Yes, it takes more effort to join
> the upstream team.  So what?  The benefits are well worth it.  As more
> and more tools gain native support for Ada more people will be
> intrigued and consider using Ada in their software.  The upstream
> authors themselves might be sufficiently intrigued to investigate the
> language.  Contrast this with separate add-ons that require potential
> users:
>
> - to be aware of their existence
> - to be convinced that they are well integrated in their tool
> - to actively look for them
> - to download them
> - to install them
> - to maintain them when their tool changes
>
> That is the reason why I have joined the Debian GCC maintainers,
> rather than maintaining gnat separately from GCC.  And that is the
> reason why, a while ago, I recommended that you do the same for your
> distribution of choice.

And that is also why GNAT was integrated into GCC, raising awareness
of Ada to unprecedented levels.

-- 
Ludovic Brenta.