Re: Announce: Debian Policy for Ada, First Edition

["Steve" <nospam_steved94@comcast.net>]

A minor note.
In a recent message on the gcc mailing list:

http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2004-07/msg00277.html

Robert Dewar made the request: "please don't abbreviate AdaCore as ACT,
thanks"

Personally I'm used to calling them ACT, but will try to shift to using
AdaCore.

Steve
(The Duck)


"Ludovic Brenta" <ludovic.brenta@insalien.org> wrote in message
news:87658u4f1z.fsf@insalien.org...
> After receiving comments from several people, I have updated the
> Debian Policy for Ada.  I deem it to be worthy of an official First
> Edition.  This does not however mean that I will not accept any more
> comments or contributions; these are always welcome.  Compared to
> Draft 4, here are the changes:
>
>
> Introduction:
> * More contributors acknowdleged.
>
> Choosing the GNAT compiler:
> * New section: "History of GNAT".
> * GNAT Pro: described the test suite used at ACT.
> * GNAT Public releases: referred to the test suite.
> * Timeline of GNAT Pro releases: mention the "wavefront" releases.
> * Timeline of FSF releases: GCC 3.4.1 released.
> * GLADE CVS repository at ACT-Europe mentioned.
> * Ada 2005 features in GCC 3.4.
>
> Policy for libraries:
> * Turn the chapter into one node per section.
> * New section: "Building libraries for reuse".
> * New section: "Mandatory files provided by the -dev package", contains
>   the former sections about source, object, *.ali, and library files,
>   now in subsections.
> * Mention recently added support for *.ali files in lintian, linda and
>   dh_fixperms.
> * Replace @code{} with @file{} in many places.
> * Section "Shared libraries" renamed to "Files provided by the shared
>   library package".
>
>
> The Debian Policy for Ada is on my web site in HTML[1] and Texinfo[2]
> formats.  In addition, I intend to upload it to Debian if my sponsor
> agrees.  This means that it will be available a Debian package named
> debian-ada-policy.  This package will include the document in Info,
> ASCII and PDF formats in addition to HTML and Texinfo source.
>
> [1] http://users.skynet.be/ludovic.brenta/debian-ada-policy.html
> [2] http://users.skynet.be/ludovic.brenta/debian-ada-policy.texi
>
> -- 
> Ludovic Brenta.