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Subject: Re: How to get Ada to ?cross the chasm??
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On 10/07/2018 16:26, Simon Wright wrote:
> Lucretia <laguest9000@googlemail.com> writes:
> 
>> On Tuesday, 10 July 2018 13:06:57 UTC+1, Dan'l Miller  wrote:
> 
>>> A corollary is: What can be done to FSF GNAT to make it that no one
>>> would even •want• to download AdaCore's GPL Community Editions at
>>> all, ever, in the first place?  I.e., what is deficient in FSF GNAT
>>> that, if improved, would cause FSF GNAT to practically eclipse all
>>> desire throughout humankind for AdaCore's GPL Community Editions to
>>> the point where people only talk of FSF GNAT as the premier
>>> brandname, never of AdaCore's GPL Community Editions?
>>
>> It would need to be updated more often than it is and not be as buggy.
> 
> Annually isn't all that bad; it's what GCC does. And AdaCore, even for
> supported customers (you can get wavefronts, but good luck installing
> those as project-standard for any sort of critical system)
> 
> And I don't believe that FSF GCC is any more buggy than CE.

FWIW, I normally test my projects with the latest AdaCore and FSF 
versions and since a couple of years (as 2012 feature-dust settled) I 
haven't found significant differences.