Re: Detailed Procedure for AdaCore GNAT GPL on Ubuntu Linux Now Available OnLine

[brbarkstrom@gmail.com]

On Wednesday, October 8, 2014 4:58:52 PM UTC-4, brbar...@gmail.com wrote:
> Phil Webb was kind enough to provide a URL where the current version of
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> my documentation can be obtained
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> https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/479487/GNAT-Installation%20v1.5.pdf
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> He cautions that the URL is not a permanent archival location, so it may
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> disappear at some point in the future.
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> [This is intended to make the pdf file more visible than where I'd put
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> the notice before.]
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> Bruce B.

Ironically, I'm using PdfLaTeX with a customized natbib bibliography
package, a large .bib BibTeX bibliography database (most of which isn't
needed for this document) and a Palatino font TeX package, plus the
report.sty and the report.cls files.  The issue of what to put into GitHub 
is roughly equivalent to the issues associated with package updates on the 
Linux distribution.  In this case, it isn't that any of this is proprietary.  
Rather, if people who wanted the original .tex file aren't fairly familiar with 
LaTeX (or, more carefully, PdfLaTeX), they may have an interesting time 
modifying the document.  I won't have time to deal with this in the next 
week or so.  I use my LaTeX configuration every day, so it was much easier
and faster for me to write the document with my familiar tools.  Plus, I've
used TeX for nearly thirty years, so I've got a lot of the TeX macros
memorized.

Let me think about it.  In principle, you're probably correct on what I should
do.  The problem is I need to return to writing other things, as well as
designing and implementing a Monte Carlo algorithm for a simulation
(in Ada, of course).

Bruce B.