Re: Meet the new GPS...same as the old GPS...

[Jeffrey Creem <jeff@thecreems.com>]

M E Leypold wrote:
> Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org> writes:
> 
> 
>>randomm@mindless.com writes:
>>
>>>I'm confused at the differences between gcc ada (which they seem to
>>>call GNAT and use all the same commands- gnatmake, gnatbind, etc.) and
>>>ACT's GNAT.  Why are there two Ada compilers (front-ends?) with the
>>>same names?
>>
>>They are in fact the same compiler; see
> 
> 
> But not any more as I understand it? Or am I being mistaken that ACT
> stopped contributing to the FSF tree some time ago and the fork is
> permanent now?
> 
> (and know, don't flame me anyone, it is/was their right to stop if
> they did. I only want know wether there is an actual fork now, or
> wether my information is wrong).
> 
> 

I do not believe this is correct. There is a fork in the sense that no 
GCC release ever matches an AdaCore release but there are new commits to 
the FSF tree from people from AdaCore all the time.

http://gcc.gnu.org/viewcvs/trunk/gcc/ada/?sortby=date#dirlist


Of course, for all we know, the runtime there is GPL and not GMGPL 
because the only thing we have to go by is the markings in the 
files..Which of course we now know is just there to mislead people. :)