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From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
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Subject: Re: AdaCore's survey regarding the future of GNAT Community Edition
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"Luke A. Guest" <laguest@archeia.com> writes:

> On 19/08/2020 21:50, Simon Wright wrote:
>> "Luke A. Guest" <laguest@archeia.com> writes:
>> 
>>> On 19/08/2020 19:09, 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?  The
>>>> natural conclusion seems to be: either the source
>>>
>>> Every component from AdaCore is an absolute fucker to build.
>> 
>> The "front-line" components (gnatcoll*, gprbuild, xmlada & friends)
>> build pretty reliably for me, even taking the master branch.
>> 
> That's only after you work out which commit to build, after many
> attempts at building.

I must have been lucky.