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On Wednesday, August 19, 2020 at 9:29:05 AM UTC-5, Simon Wright wrote:
> Roger Mc <roge...@gmail.com> writes:=20
>=20
> > I did try to build gps from the current Adacore community source but=20
> > was unsuccessful. The main problem being that Adacore seem to be in=20
> > the midst of doing the necessary upgrade from Python 2 to Python3. I=20
> > did attempt to do Python3 modifications myself but eventually got to a=
=20
> > stage where I could proceed no further
> I've reached the same stage. I can manage some of the 2-to-3 fixes (not=
=20
> the one in gobject-introspection, though), but the real problem for me=20
> is that there isn't a consistent complete set of sources, and some=20
> aren't provided on the Adacore community site (e.g. pygobject, langkit,=
=20
> libadalang, libadalang-tools, ada_language_server). And, so far as I can=
=20
> see, langkit (20.2) isn't consistent with libadalang (20.2). And, my=20
> Python venv has got screwed.=20
>=20
> Netflix & Twitter.

If multiple well-skilled people cannot build a GPL-licensed source code wit=
h the source code as provided and instructions as provided, wouldn't that b=
e a black-&-white flagrant violation of the GPL?  The natural conclusion se=
ems to be:  either the source code provided mismatched or the narrative ins=
tructions to build were omitting some secret-sauce, either of which was an =
unintentional or intentional preventative of success.  The unintentionality=
 versus intentionality would be able to be determined only after the fact b=
y observing the root-cause of the preventative of successful building once =
that root cause is discovered/reported.  This irreproducibility is both not=
able and highly interesting.