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: a07f3367d7,5f6322415d6639e0 X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,public,usenet X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!de-l.enfer-du-nord.net!usenet-fr.net!nospam.fr.eu.org!nntpfeed.proxad.net!proxad.net!feeder2-2.proxad.net!cleanfeed1-b.proxad.net!nnrp16-2.free.fr!not-for-mail From: Samuel Tardieu Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Will the defect with formal package parameters be fixed in GNAT GPL 2009? References: <558b7171-809b-4259-8679-4b4cff9de519@b6g2000pre.googlegroups.com> <75p7uoF17umq6U1@mid.individual.net> <76bd0952-f85c-44f5-80ae-b0916a699a35@c18g2000prh.googlegroups.com> Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 22:16:18 +0200 Message-ID: <87ws91nbhp.fsf@willow.rfc1149.net> User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:TyIG6lrhFq7sqD7OpqX0e2hZlac= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Leafnode-NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:6f8:37a:2::2 Organization: Guest of ProXad - France NNTP-Posting-Date: 30 Apr 2009 22:20:02 MEST NNTP-Posting-Host: 91.121.19.179 X-Trace: 1241122802 news-1.free.fr 6138 91.121.19.179:34245 X-Complaints-To: abuse@proxad.net Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:5637 Date: 2009-04-30T22:20:02+02:00 List-Id: >>>>> "Eric" == Eric Hughes writes: Eric> I'm protesting. The AdaCore relationship to the free software Eric> world is broken. I won't be using GNAT. It's not my problem, and I Eric> won't be spending even a moment of my time fixing it myself. I get that, but why are you protesting *here*? None of the people participating to this thread so far can do anything about AdaCore's GNAT. Eric> I do see some worth, however speculative, in spurring people who Eric> care to do something about it. Given the reactions I've received, Eric> that worth is becoming increasingly speculative. I think many are puzzled by the energy you spend protesting here, while you can probably get the bug fixed by reporting it through the proper channel on the GCC site. This is where the community support takes place, and code is synchronized on a regular basis between the FSF GCC and AdaCore. A bug fixed in one of the code base will get fixed in the other one. You might not like this situation (AdaCore not providing free support for the GPL version), but this is the way it is and most people are satisfied with it. AdaCore has no obligation to provide free GNAT releases, but they chose to do so as a community service[1]. You seem to think that they should do more than that and provide free support as well. I don't understand why. Sam Notes: [1] And because it can only increase the number of Ada programmers, which is good for them. -- Samuel Tardieu -- sam@rfc1149.net -- http://www.rfc1149.net/