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: 103376,2c7b0b777188b7c4 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Path: g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!atl-c08.usenetserver.com!news.usenetserver.com!pc01.usenetserver.com!ALLTEL.NET-a2kHrUvQQWlmc!not-for-mail Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2005 07:25:33 -0500 From: "Marc A. Criley" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: GNAT GPL Edition Maintenance and Upgrades References: <1128499462.850353.146890@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> In-Reply-To: <1128499462.850353.146890@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: X-Complaints-To: abuse@usenetserver.com Organization: UseNetServer.com X-Trace: d1c2d4343c60fa13cf15207696 Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:5402 Date: 2005-10-05T07:25:33-05:00 List-Id: Ludovic Brenta wrote: > Marc A. Criley a �crit : > >>Maybe Ludovic should rerun his Debian survey? Declining to include a >>maintained Ada development environment on a Linux distribution may be >>unwise... > > I warned against this on several occasions, and urged respondents to > the survey to take all aspects into consideration. I also said that > no matter what, GCC in Debian will never be as good as the GNAT GPL > Edition. Also, packaging GNAT GPL 2005 Edition was my first intention > (per the Debian Ada Policy, which I'm in the process of updating). > This apparently has had little or no effect on the results. Oh, what the hell, I'd reverse my vote given the chance. 2 pts for GNAT GPL Edition, no second choice, and no negatives. Marc