Ada policy

[Florian Weimer]

* Joseph S. Myers:

> On Mon, 30 Aug 2004, Richard Kenner wrote:
>
>> There are two problems here.  First, there is no testsuite harness to
>> add the available test cases (as you say) and second that nearly all
>> of the test cases are proprietary code.
>> 
>> If somebody volunteers to do the former, that problem will go away.
>> But the second problem is more serious, especially if you enlarge
>> the set of changes that need test cases to front-end changes.
>
> *Some* tests are proprietary code.  But there are all the Ada testcases 
> you've sent to the lists over the years (apart from those derived from 
> ACATS), which are public even though they may be synthetic tests to cover 
> problems originally shown in proprietary code, and tests that were 
> submitted to GCC Bugzilla, and tests written by the authors of front-end 
> features (rather than based on proprietary code showing a bug) when they 
> add such features.

Debian's gnat package also contains a small but growing test suite.

By the way , are copyright assignments for test cases required?  Or
could we just copy testcases from everywhere, provided that they come
with proper licensing conditions and there's no apparent show-stopper?