From: Ted Dennison<dennison@telepath.com>
Subject: Re: ADA for OS/2
Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2001 15:41:58 GMT
Date: 2001-07-06T15:41:58+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <a%k17.9629$Kf3.106035@www.newsranger.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 5ee5b646.0107051341.2a0d4b42@posting.google.com
In article <5ee5b646.0107051341.2a0d4b42@posting.google.com>, Robert Dewar
says...
>Most people will not be able to install GNAT from sources, since it
>does indeed assume GCC expertise. It is definitely true that ACT is
>not building public binaries for most platforms these days (our
>current intention is to build binaries for GNU/Linux/x86 and for NT).
>We expect that other public binaries wlil be built, distributed
>and mirrored, by those who do know how, as happens for other GNU software.
Currently the situation is a bit warped because ACT essentially controls the
Gnat baseline. Of course ACT doesn't *have* to do anything. But on the other
hand, folks have been trained to expect a lot of from GNU software maintainers.
I think that once Gnat is in the GCC baseline (RSN, right?), its perfectly
reasonable to expect the community to build its own binaries for *all*
platforms, as well as to coordinate releases, etc. If ACT feels its in their
best interests to contribute to that effort, then great. But they are a
*company* and its about time we quit expecting them to do tons of stuff for us
for free, just because we'd like it.
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Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-07-03 7:11 ADA for OS/2 John Poltorak
2001-07-03 9:35 ` David W. Noon
2001-07-03 10:56 ` John Poltorak
2001-07-03 19:09 ` tmoran
2001-07-03 20:47 ` John Poltorak
2001-07-30 3:20 ` Robert Dewar
2001-07-30 13:41 ` Ted Dennison
2001-07-30 16:51 ` tmoran
2001-07-04 9:49 ` Matthias Kretschmer
2001-07-04 13:41 ` John Poltorak
2001-07-05 13:11 ` Stephen Leake
2001-07-05 15:10 ` Larry Kilgallen
2001-07-05 21:41 ` Robert Dewar
2001-07-06 2:51 ` Windows.Only.Vendors
2001-07-06 15:18 ` Ted Dennison
2001-07-06 15:52 ` John Poltorak
2001-07-07 21:06 ` Robert Dewar
2001-07-06 17:29 ` ADA for OS/2 [Specific question] Windows.Only.Vendors
2001-07-06 18:07 ` Ted Dennison
2001-07-06 20:36 ` Florian Weimer
2001-07-06 18:28 ` John Poltorak
2001-07-06 15:41 ` Ted Dennison [this message]
2001-07-07 12:12 ` ADA for OS/2 Dave Parsons
2001-07-07 13:29 ` John Poltorak
2001-07-08 11:04 ` Ada " Dave Parsons
2001-07-07 21:26 ` ADA " Robert Dewar
2001-07-29 10:45 ` Ada " Dave Parsons
2001-07-29 17:49 ` Windows.Only.Vendors
2001-07-30 5:09 ` Dave Parsons
2001-08-05 16:10 ` Robert Dewar
2001-08-05 17:48 ` Windows.Only.Vendors
2001-08-07 22:43 ` Robert Dewar
2001-08-07 7:06 ` Dave Parsons
2001-08-07 22:45 ` Robert Dewar
2001-08-09 6:17 ` Dave Parsons
2001-08-09 18:23 ` Robert Dewar
2001-08-11 5:20 ` Dave Parsons
2001-08-12 1:15 ` Robert Dewar
2001-07-05 20:57 ` ADA " John Poltorak
2001-07-06 17:36 ` David W. Noon
2001-07-06 18:23 ` John Poltorak
2001-07-07 1:51 ` Stefan Skoglund
2001-07-07 8:52 ` Pascal Obry
2001-07-07 21:21 ` Robert Dewar
2001-07-08 8:53 ` Pascal Obry
2001-07-05 19:43 ` Robert Dewar
2001-07-05 20:32 ` John Poltorak
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2000-01-23 0:00 Ada " Paul Cass
2000-01-25 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
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1997-07-01 0:00 ` Ada for OS/2 (was Re: Linux faster than OS/2...) system
1997-07-03 0:00 ` Geert Bosch
1997-07-04 0:00 ` Haug Buerger
1997-07-04 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-08-18 0:00 ` Ada for OS/2 Geert Bosch
1997-08-19 0:00 ` Tarjei T. Jensen
1997-08-19 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
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