From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: a07f3367d7,2e86351fb0d532e X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,public,usenet X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!postnews.google.com!d17g2000yqm.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: Ludovic Brenta Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: GtkAda on Windows: Does anyone have a gtkada.gpr file? Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2010 08:40:11 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: References: <19e597vj3gojp.1t2ys58wl8lj7$.dlg@40tude.net> <10yl9b2ysrfj5$.10wfkseadielx$.dlg@40tude.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: 153.98.68.197 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: posting.google.com 1287416411 16832 127.0.0.1 (18 Oct 2010 15:40:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2010 15:40:11 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: d17g2000yqm.googlegroups.com; posting-host=153.98.68.197; posting-account=pcLQNgkAAAD9TrXkhkIgiY6-MDtJjIlC User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.0.6) Gecko/2009012111 Red Hat/3.0.6-1.el5 Firefox/3.0.6,gzip(gfe) Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:15579 Date: 2010-10-18T08:40:11-07:00 List-Id: Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote on comp.lang.ada: > [...] Debian GNAT is still broken. I checked it two days ago under > fully updated squeeze. Controlled types are broken. I am interested in precise bug reports; vague claims do not help anyone even if they are true. You seem to assume that AdaCore will learn of your bugs by chance or magic and fix them in the next GNAT GPL Edition. Even if that were true, allowing this to happen makes you more and more dependent on AdaCore. In contrast, reporting bugs in the Debian bug tracking system or the GCC Bugzilla raises awareness of the Ada part of GCC, motivates more people to contribute to it and initiates a positive feedback loop: More users -> more bug reports -> more contributors -> more fixes -> more users. Waiting patiently for the next GNAT GPL Edition has its virtues but helping the advancement of the compiler is not one of them. -- Ludovic Brenta.