From: David Botton <david@botton.com>
Subject: Re: Newcomers to comp.lang.ada: welcome and how did you end up here ?
Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2014 18:25:12 -0700 (PDT)
Date: 2014-10-11T18:25:12-07:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9dcfc1e4-ece3-4b6f-9f05-b53558ba91bf@googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87fvex5bwy.fsf@ixod.org>
> That is great news, and makes the situation much less surprising to me.
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> I think that in my reading I had realized that GNAT Pro is different,
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> but I must have conflated GNAT FSF with GNAT GPL (especially as the FSF
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> have typically done GPL enforcement!).
I wonder if it makes sense for the community to rename the FSF packaged version of GNAT to something else to prevent this confusion.
I am very happy to promote AdaCore as an option for a supported compiler option.
As marketed now the only open source Ada compiler is given the stigma that it is not fit for use at all for anything serious, as a opposed to AdaCore just marketing a "value add". The value they add is _huge_ on serious projects (I've been on both sides supporting and supported) and it is well worth it.
However... Leaving the public impression that Ada (since GNAT is only open source option) is not viable as a language for projects without support is damaging to everyone.
Would the gnuada team or others consider creating a new branded FSF GNAT targeted to the small business world? Perhaps OpenAda?
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OpenAda the Commercial Grade Open Source Ada Compiler
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For those seeking an "Enterprise support environment" can contact AdaCore as OpenAda is compatible to the GnatPRO tool chain.
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David Botton
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2014-10-06 22:42 Newcomers to comp.lang.ada: welcome and how did you end up here ? Simon Clubley
2014-10-06 23:18 ` brbarkstrom
2014-10-07 8:10 ` Gour
2014-10-07 10:49 ` Luke A. Guest
2014-10-08 7:23 ` Gour
2014-10-08 8:35 ` Brian Drummond
2014-10-08 9:15 ` Simon Wright
2014-10-08 19:14 ` -fdump-ada-spec (was: Newcomers to comp.lang.ada: welcome and how did you end up here ?) Ludovic Brenta
2014-10-08 19:48 ` -fdump-ada-spec Simon Wright
2014-10-08 9:17 ` Newcomers to comp.lang.ada: welcome and how did you end up here ? Gour
2014-10-08 11:23 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2014-10-10 9:18 ` Gour
2014-10-08 13:33 ` Luke A. Guest
2014-10-07 20:06 ` Stribor40
2014-10-07 20:21 ` Jeffrey Carter
2014-10-07 21:28 ` David Botton
2014-10-09 5:57 ` Dirk Craeynest
2014-10-10 0:58 ` rriehle
2014-10-08 7:08 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2014-10-09 11:58 ` Mark Carroll
2014-10-09 13:31 ` Simon Wright
2014-10-09 18:04 ` Brian Drummond
2014-10-09 20:02 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2014-10-09 18:35 ` Mark Carroll
2014-10-09 21:08 ` Simon Clubley
2014-10-10 7:28 ` Natasha Kerensikova
2014-10-10 9:07 ` Mark Carroll
2014-10-10 9:33 ` Björn Lundin
2014-10-10 11:41 ` Natasha Kerensikova
2014-10-10 13:35 ` Björn Lundin
2014-10-10 17:10 ` Natasha Kerensikova
2014-10-10 18:22 ` Luke A. Guest
2014-10-10 14:51 ` Lucretia
2014-10-10 14:28 ` Lucretia
2014-10-10 19:47 ` Simon Clubley
2014-10-10 21:38 ` Luke A. Guest
2014-10-12 10:56 ` Cross-toolchain for DS [was: Newcomers to comp.lang.ada: welcome and how did you end up here ?] Natasha Kerensikova
2014-10-12 11:40 ` Simon Clubley
2014-10-12 12:27 ` Peter Chapin
2014-10-12 19:42 ` Simon Clubley
2014-10-12 13:25 ` Luke A. Guest
2014-10-12 13:52 ` Natasha Kerensikova
2014-10-12 14:40 ` Luke A. Guest
2014-10-12 20:09 ` Natasha Kerensikova
2014-10-19 14:34 ` Natasha Kerensikova
2014-10-19 15:48 ` Luke A. Guest
2014-10-23 8:22 ` Natasha Kerensikova
2014-10-12 23:18 ` Lucretia
2014-10-15 9:46 ` Brian Drummond
2014-10-15 16:50 ` Lucretia
2014-10-15 9:58 ` Brian Drummond
2014-10-15 10:32 ` Natasha Kerensikova
2014-10-16 12:04 ` Brian Drummond
2014-10-11 10:53 ` Newcomers to comp.lang.ada: welcome and how did you end up here ? Brian Drummond
2014-10-12 1:33 ` David Botton
2014-10-12 1:25 ` David Botton [this message]
2014-10-12 14:40 ` Luke A. Guest
2014-10-09 19:06 ` Shark8
2014-11-04 16:28 ` Nicholas Collin Paul de Gloucester
2014-11-04 16:45 ` Barry Danforth
2014-11-04 17:18 ` David Botton
2014-10-09 12:50 ` john
2014-10-09 21:08 ` gdotone
2014-10-10 16:25 ` Stribor40
2014-10-10 17:09 ` Luke A. Guest
2014-10-10 17:59 ` Stribor40
2014-10-10 18:22 ` Luke A. Guest
2014-11-08 23:51 ` HerrDoktor
2014-11-09 7:44 ` Karl Stromberg
2014-11-09 9:28 ` HerrDoktor
2014-11-09 9:42 ` HerrDoktor
2014-11-09 9:59 ` Karl Stromberg
2014-11-09 10:25 ` HerrDoktor
2014-11-09 16:31 ` David Botton
2014-11-09 16:29 ` David Botton
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