Re: GNAT 3.15 - GCC 3.x (Was Re: Format of .adp file).

[Stephen Leake <stephen.a.leake.1@gsfc.nasa.gov>]

"chris.danx" <chris.danx@ntlworld.com> writes:

> Stephen Leake wrote:
> 
>  > Not precisely. I'm not speaking for ACT, but what I remember of
>  > previous discussions, and can extrapolate from current behavior, is
>  > that ACT will continue to make "internal, customer" releases of GNAT.
>  > They will also continue to dump changes into the gcc tree. There will
>  > not necessarily be synchronized releases; there is no need. But in
>  > general, the gcc tree will track the GNAT releases. I would not be
>  > surprised to see lead/lag times of a year, though (in either
>  > direction).
> 
> I know of people who have a problem with this and I agree with them.
> I'd prefer it if there where external maintainers as well as ACT who
> could improve Gnat for all.  All the other gcc frontends are improved by
> the communities they serve, why not Gnat?

Nothing is stoping other people from working on the gcc tree. If you
have something significant to contribute, it would help to coordinate
with ACT. I guess that could be complicated, especially if they decide
not to support what you want to add. But I don't see that as being any
more or less likely than RedHat deciding not to support some addition
to gcc C++.

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-- Stephe