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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: A proposal for Debian policy for Ada
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Date: Wed, 19 May 2010 11:47:30 +0200
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On Wed, 19 May 2010 05:25:02 -0400, Stephen Leake wrote:

> That doesn't say how to get the "list of Linux distributions" in the
> first place, which was my question.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Linux_distributions

You can certainly reduce that to the list of "popular distributions" shown
here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_distribution

>>> Personally I think they should participate on comp.lang.ada if only
>>> occasionally to make their work known.  But the fact is they don't.
>>
>> They certainly will, if a project of unification starts, organized as a
>> body similar to ARG. It could also be a good place for reporting
>> language-specific GNAT bugs and fixes, before they go to GCC.
> 
> ARG does not use c.l.a; they use a private mailing list. I would expect
> any formal body to do the same.

That depends on the grade of its formality you liked to achieve.

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