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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,1d8ab55e71d08f3d X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,1efdd369be089610 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) Subject: Re: what DOES the GPL really say? Date: 1997/08/20 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 268461765 References: <5ph4g5$sbs$1@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> Organization: New York University Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,gnu.misc.discuss Date: 1997-08-20T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: <> We will have to see how this develops. At best it will be an interesting experimental environment for trying out new ideas in a situation where stability is not the first order of business. At worst, it will just be a further divergence in gcc versions. Hopefully it will succeed in being the first of these rather than the second. Actually it would be very nice if there was more experimental activity with GNAT in terms of interesting new experimental ideas, but so far we haven't seen much of this -- hopefully we will see more in the future, this is after all why the sources are available (and why the DoD insisted on the sources being distributed under the GPL!) For example, it would be nice if someone would have a crack at trying out Tuck's "with type" idea for resolving mutual dependencies in library units -- probably this would not be too hard. Note incidentally that one of the improvements in 3.10 is that we have rewritten all the former spitbol utilities in Ada -- which removes one obstacle to modifying GNAT, particularly when it comes to adding new syntax etc.