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Re: Why not gnat Ada in gcc?
- To: kenner at vlsi1 dot ultra dot nyu dot edu (Richard Kenner)
- Subject: Re: Why not gnat Ada in gcc?
- From: Jeffrey A Law <law at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2000 19:24:15 -0700
- cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Reply-To: law at redhat dot com
In message <10011020224.AA06122@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu>you write:
> Funny, that's not unlike the argument originally made for GDB. And
> gee whiz, the developers we never knew of did start coming out of the
> blue to do development. Similarly with GCC when we opened up its
> development via egcs -- lots of folks started contibuting that had
> never contributed before.
>
> Yes, but in both cases there were *some* contributors before.
Not really for GDB. I can count the number of external contributors on one
hand that existed before we made a repository available on sourceware.
jeff