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From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
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Subject: Re: Open source Ada OS?
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anon@att.net writes:

> Now, since you are a Ada maintainer you might download each version of
> a set of packages or use GIT but others aka the greeks have projects
> they are working on so they do not spend all their time just
> downloading every version of GCC.  And I believe that if you had a HD
> crash or other damage to your system where the data or source code may
> have been currupted you would start with initially downloading the
> compressed archive then go back to downloading using VCS or others for
> updates. But most people are not maintainer they prefer a clean and
> working copy of the software and that includes greeks.

What have you got against greeks?