Why not gnat Ada in gcc?

[Jeffrey A Law]

In message < 10011020213.AA06066@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu >you write:
  > Nobody is arguing against doing development in the open.  The issue is
  > the technical one of how to handle merges.  If there were to be a lot
  > of external developers the easiest way to do it is different than if
  > there weren't.  The point that Laurent Guerby originally made (and
  > which I support) is that it's wasteful to make that decision until we
  > see whether there actually *are* such developers, especially when
  > there's significant evidence (the past six years) that there aren't.
Funny, that's not unlike the argument originally made for GDB.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.



jeff