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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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Date: Sun, 02 Jul 2006 19:19:48 +0200
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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.

-- 
Ludovic Brenta.