From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.6 (2021-04-09) on ip-172-31-74-118.ec2.internal X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,NICE_REPLY_A autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.6 Path: eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "J-P. Rosen" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: How to challenge a GCC patch? Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2021 11:56:48 +0200 Organization: Adalog Message-ID: References: <63ef1b5d-82eb-4446-b793-8465250f06bbn@googlegroups.com> <2c924fd6-3357-4817-9255-79c36f4096a5n@googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2021 09:56:52 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: reader02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="9e13566cf6083b4e16d4351c3ee4fc19"; logging-data="23333"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+dGgOGLhE4Oc2Plra3Y6op" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.14.0 Cancel-Lock: sha1:KeH2teaYJDn3fu7xYuGPjbEJToc= In-Reply-To: <2c924fd6-3357-4817-9255-79c36f4096a5n@googlegroups.com> Content-Language: fr Xref: reader02.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:62916 List-Id: Le 30/09/2021 à 10:21, Arnaud Charlet a écrit : > We have decided in any case to stop creating and distributing GNAT Community binaries, since this was causing too much confusion and misunderstanding wrt the license, so doing in the end more harm than good to the community, which we care very much about. > > So in the future, GNAT will be available directly and only from the FSF versions, and Alire will make that easy. > > Alire (https://alire.ada.dev/) already provides GCC 10.3 today, see e.g. "alr toolchain --select" > And what will happen to other versions of Gnat that were useful for promoting Ada, like JGnat and Lego-mindstorm? (I know you freezed these some years ago, but it was very useful to be able to mention them). And what will happen for fixes to asis-gcc? Will they be propagated to GCC 10.3? Even after you move to GCC 11.x? -- J-P. Rosen Adalog 2 rue du Docteur Lombard, 92441 Issy-les-Moulineaux CEDEX Tel: +33 1 45 29 21 52 https://www.adalog.fr