Re: GNAT versions ( was :Ada compiler for PC?)

[Geoffrey KEATING <geoffk@discus.anu.edu.au>]

bourguet@my-dejanews.com writes:

> First wavefront version of gnat are not release but more like snapshot,
> and commercial release usually are quickly followed by a public one of the
> same code.
> 
> About the public availability you may have another point of view than the
> one of Robert Dewar, but his POV is quite argumented, consistant and in
> nothing contrary to the GPL. The beta testers of emacs or gcc are perhaps
> not the customers of a compagny, but snapshot and prerelease of these
> programs are not very much more easily available than wavefront or commercial
> release of gnats, and public release no less distant that public release of
> gnat.

You mean, the wavefront and/or commercial releases of gnats are
available by anonymous FTP, and the current tree can be obtained by
anonymous CVS?  I'd be interested in more details, if so.

This is certainly true for egcs, and IIRC even for gcc there is
anonymous CVS access.

[Before anyone asks, you can get egcs snapshots from egcs.cygnus.com,
or any of its mirrors.  Releases are put in the same place.]

-- 
Geoff Keating <Geoff.Keating@anu.edu.au>