Re: Lack of Mature Tools (was: Lockheed Martin, Green Hills, etc.)

[Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>]

In article <8e7510$9ic1@news.cis.okstate.edu>,
  dstarner98@aasaa.ofe.org wrote:
> On Wed, 26 Apr 2000 14:34:40 GMT, Robert Dewar
<robert_dewar@my-deja.com> wrote:
> >The reason we do not provide the public version on our FTP
> >site is that our FTP site is intended to serve SOLELY the
> >needs of our commercial customers.  The public versions as I
> >have noted are NOT in any sense products of our company, and
> >therefore do not belong on the company site.  Note that the
> >same is true of much free software, for instance the public
> >versions of gcc are not distributed by Cygnus per se.
>
> Um, gcc.gnu.org = egcs.cygnus.com, and that server certainly
hosts
> an FTP site for the releases and snapshots, and a CVS server
with the
> latest gcc.


cygnus provides the physical machine, but does NOT maintain
the current gcc release. This is maintained and managed by
the gcc maintenance committee. Some of the individuals on
this committee happen to work for Cygnus, but they are
not representing Cygnus on this committee. Cygnus certainly
provides input to this process, but they are quick themselves
to emphasize that they do not control the fsf version of
gcc. So if you are reading this into the physical location
of the machine supporting gcc.gnu.org, you are reading wrong!


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