Re: Next public release of GNAT(?)

[pontius@btv.MBI.com.invalid (Dale Pontius)]

In article <5ee5b646.0201091756.52f0a35a@posting.google.com>,
        dewar@gnat.com (Robert Dewar) writes:
> Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de> wrote in message news:<874rlv8gmt.fsf@deneb.enyo.de>...
>> Stephen Leake <stephen.a.leake.1@gsfc.nasa.gov> writes:
>>
>> > No, the whole point of the gcc tree is that it is at gcc 3.0, and the
>> > Ada code builds on that.
>>
>> No, the Ada code is build on top of the HEAD, which is
>> GCC 3.1.
>
> Thanks Florian for stepping in to try to inject some
> correct and helpful information :-)
>
>>
>> > This will be the basis of the ACT 3.15 release.
>>
>> I haven't read an announcement in this area.  Could you
>> point me to it?
>
> No one can point you to an announcement, because the
> statement is false. One time in the past, we had hoped
> that the next release of GNAT after 3.14 would be
> GNAT 5.0, based on GCC 3, but since it is taking longer

Pardon me if this is an old story, but what happened to GNAT 4.0?
I presume you have some rationale for skipping to 5.0, could you
share?

Dale Pontius
NOT speaking for IBM