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Re: PR 5904: maintainership of GNU Ada
- From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28 at cam dot ac dot uk>
- To: Joe Buck <Joe dot Buck at synopsys dot com>
- Cc: <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Fri, 3 May 2002 21:16:35 +0100 (BST)
- Subject: Re: PR 5904: maintainership of GNU Ada
On Thu, 2 May 2002, Joe Buck wrote:
> I asked a while back if there were any remaining "political" Ada issues
> (other than the battles over requirements for bootstrapping). There
> is still PR 5904, marked as "high": many files say
>
> * GNAT was originally developed by the GNAT team at New York University. *
> * It is now maintained by Ada Core Technologies Inc (http://www.gnat.com). *
A slightly related issue: the bogus "contact ACT" and "ACT does not
currently supply" references are still present in the Ada front end
manual; all of them in the 3.1 branch manual, and one in the mainline
manual (PR ada/6399).
"Ada Core Technologies does not currently supply a suitable binding
generator tool." and "For information on GLADE, contact Ada Core
Technologies." are some of the dubious sentences.
The manuals also list ACT as their author; just as companies aren't FSF
maintainers, I understand they aren't authors of FSF manuals either
(people are).
--
Joseph S. Myers
jsm28@cam.ac.uk