From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.5-pre1 (2020-06-20) on ip-172-31-74-118.ec2.internal X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.5-pre1 Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!aioe.org!.POSTED.2uCIJahv+a4XEBqttj5Vkw.user.gioia.aioe.org!not-for-mail From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: AdaCore's survey regarding the future of GNAT Community Edition Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2020 21:11:31 +0200 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: References: <52baf1e5-f0a5-42be-acc7-75fb17fb6f4co@googlegroups.com> <5b2b3117-dd85-45ff-bbf6-0a1fa6364f76n@googlegroups.com> <2e77d5f6-3545-41e2-a378-2a98a8ed7cd6n@googlegroups.com> <7b0de654-32fa-4b78-88c9-8718f2dd2769n@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 2uCIJahv+a4XEBqttj5Vkw.user.gioia.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.11.0 Content-Language: en-US X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.9.2 Xref: reader01.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:59745 List-Id: 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