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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,959627a08fbc77c5 X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,30a9bb3017fa58dd X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Maciej Stachowiak Subject: Re: GNAT versions ( was :Ada compiler for PC?) Date: 1999/04/25 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 470745021 Sender: mstx@207-172-255-37.s37.tnt2.sbo.ma.dialup.rcn.com References: <7fndu7$im4$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <7fqld6$htu$1@nnrp1.dej <1999Apr23.172908.1@eisner> <7frqmj$bg6$1@mulga.cs.mu.oz.au> <7ftfj4$vln$1@Jupiter.mcs.net> <7fud3l$hqi$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> X-Trace: m3KDfU+hpkxCAThQufOdx4JaHP0wdH5lUMcKQmkw4cI= NNTP-Posting-Date: 25 Apr 1999 18:00:48 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,gnu.misc.discuss X-Complaints-To: abuse@rcn.com Date: 1999-04-25T18:00:48+00:00 List-Id: Robert Dewar writes: > In article <7ftfj4$vln$1@Jupiter.mcs.net>, > > Obviously it would be possible to mitigate the risks of > wavefronts if we had the resources to develop two versions > simultaneously, the development version with all the new > features, and the old version with minimal bug fixes. > Indeed this is somewhat what Cygnus does with EGCS. > Obviously EGCS does not have the new development stuff > that Cygnus has internally (which is very closely held > until it is released), but they do spend significant > resources coordinating bug fixes with EGCS. > This is not IMO a fair description of the EGCS project. EGCS contains a lot more than bug fixes, it has a lot of new feature development as well - new optimizations, C++ front-end work and new platform support, among other things. Cygnus has regularly delivered the code for major features to the EGCS tree, and I suspect quite a few major features appeared in the EGCS tree before they were shipped to Cygnus customers. In fact, EGCS began as essentially a drop of the Cygnus internal development tree. Of course, I am not a Cygnus employee so I can't really speak for their proedures, but that is how it looks to me. Also, even though Cygnus provides the infrastructure for EGCS and pays a number of employees to work on it, EGCS is not really controlled by Cygnus, but rather by a steering committee on which Cygnus employees constitute a minority. - Maciej Stachowiak