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David Botton <david@botton.com> writes:

> Here is a recent example of small minded thinking:
>
> https://www.mail-archive.com/gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org/msg100382.html
>
> Unless the tools needed to build with gpr file are up streamed to the
> FSF the barrier to a working toolset out of the box got even larger

The reasoning is that gprbuild is much more capable than gnatmake, and
keeping gnatmake up to speed would be hard.

gprbuild is (C) FSF, gnatcoll & xmlada are (C) Adacore. All are GPLv3
with the runtime library exception excised.

It is of course possible to use the GPL gprbuild to invoke an FSF
compiler via a GPR file (I just did!) but that hardly counts as 'out of
the box'.

I will continue to provide gprbuild (somehow!) with my Mac binaries.

Not sure whether the Debian gnat package includes gprbuild?