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: 103376,1efdd369be089610 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,1d8ab55e71d08f3d X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) Subject: Re: what DOES the GPL really say? Date: 1997/08/21 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 265812556 References: <5ph4g5$sbs$1@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> <5thahh$g19@fg70.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> Organization: New York University Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,gnu.misc.discuss Date: 1997-08-21T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: <> We do not see any advantage to our customer base in doing so at the current time. On the contrary, we would regard it as confusing to our customer base to have two threads of development, especially if the egcs one is rather uncontrolled, which seems to be the general idea. If it were the case that various people were contributing useful experimental stuff to GNAT, then that would be nice, and the egcs project would be a reasonable home for such developments, but right now that does not seem to be happening on any significant scale. Our primary concern is to make sure that the continued development of GNAT is very carefully controlled, with an emphasis on stability, reliability, and robustness. This requires careful configuration control, and careful testing. Note that one very significant missing element in any work on GNAT in conjunction with egcs would be that there would be no access to our test suite (the test suite cannot be made public, since it is primarily made up of customer code, which has to be very carefully protected). We just don't see that the egcs project has much to offer in helping the development of GNAT. Sure, we understand that people would like to get their hands on changes early if their primary interest is in fiddling with the latest stuff, but we don't see that as the market that we are addressing! P.S. GNAT 3.10p is now cut for at least one target, and we are doing some pre-release testing right now, so far it looks pretty good, so we are hoping for a 3.10p release pretty soon.