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From: Pascal Obry <p.obry@wanadoo.fr>
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Subject: Re: Contributing patches to GPL Ada projects (was: Is Ada dead?)
Date: 18 Jul 2001 19:55:00 +0200
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Stephen Leake <stephen.a.leake.1@gsfc.nasa.gov> writes:

> Stefan Skoglund <stetson@ebox.tninet.se> writes:
> 
> > <snip>
> > But pls people when doing your OpenSource projects try to get access to
> > an IRIX machine of some flavor and or some SunOS machines.
> > It exists ppl who have such machines and which allows external ssh or
> > telnet access. the Irix c compiler is by default more picky about your 
> > programs than gcc for example.
> 
> So install gcc and gnat, and use that! That's part of the point of
> open source; you get to use the right tools!

Or send patches to maintainers to have proper IRIX support ! You just can't
expect everybody to have access to every kind of OS!

Pascal.

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