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-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,7bcba1db9ed24fa7 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-07-14 17:16:11 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newshub2.home.com!news.home.com!news1.rdc1.mi.home.com.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "McDoobie" Subject: Re: Contributing patches to GPL Ada projects (was: Is Ada dead?) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Organization: The Caffinated Corps. References: <3B50A21A.8D2A2@ebox.tninet.se> User-Agent: Pan/0.8.1beta4 (Unix) X-No-Productlinks: Yes Message-ID: Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2001 00:16:10 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.0.109.49 X-Complaints-To: abuse@home.net X-Trace: news1.rdc1.mi.home.com 995156170 24.0.109.49 (Sat, 14 Jul 2001 17:16:10 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2001 17:16:10 PDT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:9964 Date: 2001-07-15T00:16:10+00:00 List-Id: In article <3B50A21A.8D2A2@ebox.tninet.se>, Stefan Skoglund wrote: > > Which requires some target with dbx like some early BSD, SunOS of some > flavour or HP-UX or IRIX. > > And now we jump onto a big problem: A number of guys with somewhat > un-Linux machines has provided access to different Open Source projects > and well the access wasn't really used in proper way ie no real work > done which makes the machine-owner somewhat pissed. > > This reflects onto other OpenSource projects !! > > To many of the current crop of OpenSource hackers has a pro-Linux i386 > approach and doesn't really care about other targets. Someone asked for > some very linux-only changes on gnome-list lately. Havoc told him that > it was a bad idea due to portability reason. > > But pls people when doing your OpenSource projects try to get access to > an IRIX machine of some flavor and or some SunOS machines. It exists ppl > who have such machines and which allows external ssh or telnet access. > the Irix c compiler is by default more picky about your programs than > gcc for example. This is certainly a legitimate concern. And I agree wholeheartedly. The problem is that I dont have a couple thousand dollars laying around to snatch an IRIX/Mips, Alpha, or UltraSparc machine(and those would be bottom of the barrel.) I would be curious to know how many Open Source programmers can actually afford those types of machines. Now, one possibility does present itself. Suppose you have a team of "hackers" that really like to work together. Suppose they form a User Group of some sort. Supposing there are enough interested members in that group, they could team up and purchase a nice workstation for compiling and debugging on that platform, and put the workstation under the name of thier non-profit organization. Hypothetically it could work. Not sure if it's practical. I know that's kinda what the local LUG does here with some computer stuff. Thoughts? McDoobie chris@dont.spam.me