Re: AdaCore's survey regarding the future of GNAT Community Edition

[Roger Mc <rogermcm2@gmail.com>]

On Thursday, August 20, 2020 at 5:11:36 AM UTC+10, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
> On 19/08/2020 20:09, Andreas ZEURCHER wrote: 
> 
> > If multiple well-skilled people cannot build a GPL-licensed source code with the source code as provided and instructions as provided, wouldn't that be a black-&-white flagrant violation of the GPL?
> What else you expect when GTK and Python are used? GTK is practically 
> impossible to bootstrap. Python is full of bugs and incompatibilities. 
> On top of that for some mysterious reason AdaCore decided to use config 
> scripts. No wonder it is a nightmare anywhere outside Linux. 
> 
> If you think that commercial code delivered in sources is any better, 
> you are wrong. Building from sources working out of the box is a rare 
> exception. Most vendors simply check out the code from the repository 
> and send it to you. They have no resources or desire to supply you with 
> a working toolchain tailored for your targets, nor have they necessary 
> knowledge anyway. 
> 
> -- 
> Regards, 
> Dmitry A. Kazakov 
> http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de

Incredibly, Python seems to be the language of choice for "teaching" the now-defunct discipline of software development, even by leading universities as far as I can discover.
Most of the rules of disciplined software development seem to have been discarded long ago. In particular, the maintainability aspect seems to have disappeared.
Regards,
Roger