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=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: a07f3367d7,b2c4d98cbc17f0a9 X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,public,usenet X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news4.google.com!feeder2.cambriumusenet.nl!feed.tweaknews.nl!192.87.166.28.MISMATCH!tudelft.nl!txtfeed1.tudelft.nl!news.nobody.at!texta.sil.at!newsfeed01.chello.at!newsfeed.arcor.de!newsspool4.arcor-online.net!news.arcor.de.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" Subject: Re: A proposal for Debian policy for Ada Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada User-Agent: 40tude_Dialog/2.0.15.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply-To: mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de Organization: cbb software GmbH References: <87aarzd14c.fsf@ludovic-brenta.org> <198miwzl97pnl$.1onmpwoadjr1p.dlg@40tude.net> <87632ncxjg.fsf@ludovic-brenta.org> <9vgayrtxydx3.y97a4jp28sin$.dlg@40tude.net> <821vd91vx3.fsf@stephe-leake.org> <128sk4lf7e74o.exterpadd849$.dlg@40tude.net> <982f31af-6db1-4949-8e62-0efb3c034dd2@o15g2000vbb.googlegroups.com> Date: Tue, 18 May 2010 14:39:26 +0200 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Date: 18 May 2010 14:39:26 CEST NNTP-Posting-Host: ebcedd3e.newsspool1.arcor-online.net X-Trace: DXC=5Y^IB\LPdRRmG86`U=_nC_ic==]BZ:af^4Fo<]lROoRQ<`=YMgDjhgR6E_NldJ1nGR[6LHn;2LCV^7enW;^6ZC`T\`mfM[68DCSM4JhT>1TFAY X-Complaints-To: usenet-abuse@arcor.de Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:11723 Date: 2010-05-18T14:39:26+02:00 List-Id: On Tue, 18 May 2010 02:53:05 -0700 (PDT), Ludovic Brenta wrote: > Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote on comp.lang.ada: >> On Tue, 18 May 2010 04:00:40 -0400, Stephen Leake wrote: >>> "Dmitry A. Kazakov" writes: >> >>>> BTW, is it possible to have one united Ada policy for all Linux >>>> distributions? >> >>> First you have to enumerate "all Linux distributions"; I don't know how >>> to do that. >> >> That's simple: all distributions having GNAT on the list. (In effect GNAT >> is the only Linux Ada compiler) > > You have reduced the problem to a smaller sub-problem but not solved > the sub-problem, thereby showing that it is not as "simple" as you > claim it is. But didn't I solve at least the problem of Linux enumeration? (:-)) >> [Wondering] Is it possible that there exist GNAT distribution maintainers, >> who do not read c.l.a? They must be experienced Ada programmers in order to >> be able to do that job. There is not that many other Ada resources on the >> Web. I would be happy if there were a conspiracy for Ada, driven by some >> top secret agents, but a more realistic hypothesis is that "we" indeed know >> these people. > > The Linux Ada community is small but still larger than the > comp.lang.ada community; there are many web forums where newbies who > have never heard of Usenet ask questions about Ada and GNAT on GNU/ > Linux. Yes, but I hope newbies do not maintain GNAT distributions... > In the thread "One united Ada policy for all Linux distributions?" I > enumerated the GNAT distribution maintainers that I know about; you > will see that few of them read comp.lang.ada (of if they do, they are > very silent about it). OK, I agree. The web distance is not 0. Isn't 1? I.e. any Linux GNAT maintainer is known to somebody in c.l.a? > Personally I think they should participate on comp.lang.ada if only > occasionally to make their work known. But the fact is they don't. They certainly will, if a project of unification starts, organized as a body similar to ARG. It could also be a good place for reporting language-specific GNAT bugs and fixes, before they go to GCC. -- Regards, Dmitry A. Kazakov http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de