"Stephen Leake" <stephen.a.leake.1@gsfc.nasa.gov> a �crit dans le message
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> All of the code in the GNU project is contributed either by
> volunteers, or by companies being paid to produce GNU code (ACT,
> RedHat). Volunteers do what they want; companies do what they are paid
> for.

Yes, that's a well known situation. I don't see how it is related with what
we were talking about.

> If you offer to pay money to ACT to maintain GNAT.Regexp in a way
> that is compatible with Rational, they might consider it. If a large
> number of people make the same offer, they will definitely consider
> it.

I don't need GNAT.Regexp  ...

> On the other hand, if you port GNAT.Regexp once to Rational.Regexp,
> you are under no obligation to track future GNAT changes. You are also
> free to submit it as a GNU library, so others can use it.

Thanks I was aware of that :-)
But that has nothing to do with what we were talking about ...
Availability of standard libraries, independant of compilers and platforms,
as a requirement for Ada to be a viable solution a few years from now.