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Subject: Re: How to challenge a GCC patch?
From: Arnaud Charlet <charlet@adacore.com>
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> But it's not available from AdaCore's community page. For most users, 
> downloading and building from an FSF site is way too complicated. Call 
> it asis-gcc or not, what is needed is a simple way to install ASIS support. 

We have decided in any case to stop creating and distributing GNAT Community binaries, since this was causing too much confusion and misunderstanding wrt the license, so doing in the end more harm than good to the community, which we care very much about.

So in the future, GNAT will be available directly and only from the FSF versions, and Alire will make that easy.

Alire (https://alire.ada.dev/) already provides GCC 10.3 today, see e.g. "alr toolchain --select"

> (Making a tree generator separate from the compiler is for me another 
> error, although I can live with it. One of the main benefits of ASIS is 
> that the ASIS program has the same view of the code as the compiler - 
> but that's a separate issue).

Right, and has never been the case for cross compilers where you already needed a native GNAT to build your ASIS application, and a cross GNAT to generate trees.

Arno