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: 103376,24ac770ebf312b7a X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!nx02.iad01.newshosting.com!newshosting.com!68.1.17.232.MISMATCH!peer01.cox.net!cox.net!news-out.ntli.net!newsrout1-gui.ntli.net!ntli.net!newspeer1-win.ntli.net!newsfe4-gui.ntli.net.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: "Dr. Adrian Wrigley" Subject: Re: Next Ada compiler for Debian: the votes so far User-Agent: Pan/0.14.2 (This is not a psychotic episode. It's a cleansing moment of clarity.) Message-Id: Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada References: <87u0gjd8kj.fsf@ludovic-brenta.org> <87zmq7zi2g.fsf@ludovic-brenta.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 12:16:44 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 80.4.127.115 X-Complaints-To: http://www.ntlworld.com/netreport X-Trace: newsfe4-gui.ntli.net 1127305004 80.4.127.115 (Wed, 21 Sep 2005 13:16:44 BST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 13:16:44 BST Organization: ntl Cablemodem News Service Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:4995 Date: 2005-09-21T12:16:44+00:00 List-Id: On Wed, 21 Sep 2005 05:41:50 +0100, Simon Wright wrote: > "Dr. Adrian Wrigley" writes: > >> The damage to the GMGPL versions: if distributions and users move >> to the GNAT GPL 2005 version, it becomes less likely that the GMGPL >> versions will be adequately maintained and upgraded. This is likely >> to be a major disbenefit for those needing GMGPL versions. > > I don't know whether _you_ believe this -- it's worth noting that the > people who pay AdaCore are paying for a GMGPL compiler, it has to cost > AdaCore (even if only a little) to make a GPL release. OK. This was unclear. I was referring to the freely available (public) GMGPL versions, not the paid-for GMGPL versions. The evidence suggests that ACT no longer intends to freely distribute the GMGPL Ada technologies discussed by periodic public releases. Compilers based on the widely distributed GMGPL sources seem to be seriously lagging ACT's paid-for GMGPL compilers, lacking fixes and enhancements. -- Adrian Try: >> The damage to the GMGPL versions: if distributions and users move >> to the GNAT GPL 2005 version, it becomes less likely that the >> public GMGPL versions will be adequately maintained and upgraded. This >> is likely to be a major disbenefit for those needing GMGPL versions.