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Re: Freeze timing and questions
- From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28 at cam dot ac dot uk>
- To: Geert Bosch <bosch at gnat dot com>
- Cc: Mark Mitchell <mark at codesourcery dot com>, Richard Kenner <kenner at vlsi1 dot ultra dot nyu dot edu>, "gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org" <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 20:14:54 +0000 (GMT)
- Subject: Re: Freeze timing and questions
On Mon, 17 Dec 2001, Geert Bosch wrote:
> > I believe that we have already agreed that Ada will not be part of
> > this release.
> >
> > Therefore, I think the Ada people should be free to do whatever they
> > like, so long as it does not affect other languages.
>
> I would like to continue integrating ACT changes for a while, since
> the integration of the Ada front end is improving quickly. The slow
> down in GCC development and hopefully reduced breakage of ports like
> Sparc/Solaris
> will be a big help in moving forward with various ports.
>
> BTW, I had not heard about the decision to not include Ada in this
> release,
> but I think that may be a good idea.
So far, we have been advertising that Ada *will* be part of 3.1, on the
website, in both index.html and frontends.html. Of course, we can say it
will be part of the release but not of the release criteria (as for Java
in 3.0) and warn it may not work on all the important platforms.
--
Joseph S. Myers
jsm28@cam.ac.uk