Re: Reenabling Ada by default

[Andrew Haley <aph at redhat dot com>]

Robert Dewar writes:
 > Zack Weinberg wrote:
 > 
  > > It does not matter how few people are qualified to review patches for
 > > the Ada front end.  The requirement is that patch review occur in
 > > public.  I am assuming that there is an internal review process; all
 > > we are asking is that you do that on an open mailing list so that
 > > others can observe.
 > 
 > The internal review process very often involves proprietary customer
 > information, so generally this kind of opening up is not possible.
 > Remember that the great majority of bugs that are being fixed by
 > AdaCore are from customers with proprietary code.

The same was true when I worked at Cygnus.  We sometimes had to write
independent test cases that would show bugs in order to demonstrate
problems to the rest of the gcc community.

Andrew.