Re: GNAT for Debian

[Preben Randhol <randhol+abuse@pvv.org>]

David Holm wrote:
> But GNU decides what to accept from ACTs patches and what not to
> accept. They do not blindly apply code that come from ACT. Since ACT
> is striving for maximum Ada stability it is likely that when
> GNU-people remove code they will go further away from that goal or
> otherwise there would be no need for separate codebases.

I don't know but I would expect that the GNU people only review what the
changes involve with regards to the rest of gcc? Are there people in GNU
that has enough knowledge of gnat to review the code?

> But providing only gcc-3.x based Ada compilers won't make the
> distribution attractive to knowledgable Ada developers either. Which
> was my point. 

I agree with you. We need 3.15p

> From what I have read recently (although I don't follow the
> gcc-mailinglists much) it seems that they are more intent on keeping
> C/C++ etc stable which is likely to impair Ada development since the
> ACT patch affecting non-ada stuff is growing.  One day there might be
> two different branches, ACT who is going for stability and GCC where
> people can freely submit patches moving Ada stuff forward at a faster
> pace. I wouldn't bet my money on gcc-3 in the near future though.
> Unless there is a real good reason to use ada from gcc-3 I will stick
> with the ordinary gnat releases.

Perhaps it will be like the the gs package where there is one also for
gs-aladin.

> On a sidenote, if you or anyone else is interested in building
> gnat-3.15p packages I could mail you the build procedure I'm using in
> gentoo. I've found it rather difficult to build properly without lots
> of extra stuff going on around it. I'm also working on a build
> process for ACT cvs snapshots, seems they added more fuss to it which
> changes the buildprocess somewhat.

Would be great. Could you put it somewhere on the net too?

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