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: Geoffrey KEATING Subject: Re: GNAT versions ( was :Ada compiler for PC?) Date: 1999/04/25 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 470525708 X-NNTP-Posting-Host: 150.203.126.185 References: <3718ccb6.3581307@news.mindspring.com> <3718d384.254178@news.pacbell.net> <1999Apr20.073527.1@eisner> <7fi2k3$lv9$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <371C99DD.F15ADC4B@spam.com> <7fkkoi$ui$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <371DF7CE.C7D7C1F@spam.com> <1999Apr21.142617.1@eisner> <371E2F2A.662C8F4F@spam.com> <7fndu7$im4$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <371F8B02.9BD7045F@spam.com> <7fomsh$p8u$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <86lnfjx5rx.fsf@coulee.tdb.com> <7fq3ad$9k$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> X-Trace: 25 Apr 1999 10:33:43 +1000, 150.203.126.185 Organization: CSLab, RSISE, ANU Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,gnu.misc.discuss Date: 1999-04-25T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: 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