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: 103376,4ffc4a297a9f10e0 X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Path: g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!feeder.news-service.com!newsfeed.straub-nv.de!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "J-P. Rosen" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Thoughts on AdaCore maintaining GCC-incompatible GNAT sources Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2011 08:19:25 +0100 Organization: Adalog Message-ID: References: <62c8c6c1-6578-4e61-b68a-2c192f34aa94@f20g2000prn.googlegroups.com> <1456fbc5-f951-4721-8575-0b73a492f275@r29g2000yqj.googlegroups.com> <80886810-73e0-4eea-88e3-6653afc2f45b@a28g2000prb.googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2011 07:19:26 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx01.eternal-september.org; posting-host="cJo7kSTQUrCFv2/D8KKtqw"; logging-data="12394"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19ScXRYXzplnKN2auCBx3uI" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; fr; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101207 Thunderbird/3.1.7 In-Reply-To: <80886810-73e0-4eea-88e3-6653afc2f45b@a28g2000prb.googlegroups.com> Cancel-Lock: sha1:Ho/OzQBbQecojGVEqkSYd+VXXKg= Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:16601 Date: 2011-01-21T08:19:25+01:00 List-Id: Le 20/01/2011 22:56, deadlyhead a �crit : > I actually can't see any downside to AdaCore developing on a GCC > branch. > The difficulty AdaCore has to face is that the public version of Gnat is a damn good compiler. Even if a new version appears only once a year, it's still better than some other proprietary compilers. Too many industrial users (not those who make rockets, but smaller industries) simply use the public version, and it's hard to make them pay when the public version is OK for their needs. Up to 3.15, there was only a single line of products, AdaCore was simply selling support for the compiler. Apparently, they had to change that business model for reasons. -- --------------------------------------------------------- J-P. Rosen (rosen@adalog.fr) Adalog a d�m�nag� / Adalog has moved: 2 rue du Docteur Lombard, 92441 Issy-les-Moulineaux CEDEX Tel: +33 1 45 29 21 52, Fax: +33 1 45 29 25 00