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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: GNAT packages in Linux distributions
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On Sun, 09 May 2010 23:44:39 +0100, Simon Wright wrote:

> "Yannick Duch�ne (Hibou57)" <yannick_duchene@yahoo.fr> writes:
> 
>> P.P.S. I wonder why, being an owner of a GNAT Pro license, you need
>> the GPL version ? You will get just less with the GPL version.
> 
> I expect that very few private individuals have a GNAT Pro support
> contract!

Yes.

As for me, I have GNAT Pro at work. The things I do privately I check
against GNAT Pro. When I publish them I try to find a workaround in the GPL
version.

I do not report bugs from my private work to AdaCore, unless they also
appear in the software our company develops. However there is a fair
overlap, i.e. when AdaCore fixes one, that also fixes another. As I can
judge GNAT Pro 6.3.x is pretty good by now.

> When developing open-source software, I wouldn't want to say to
> potential users such as yourself "my library works fine with GNAT Pro,
> too bad it doesn't work with GNAT GPL".

Exactly.

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Dmitry A. Kazakov
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