Ada policy

[Robert Dewar]

Zack Weinberg wrote:

> For the record, I'm fine with putting the fix in the FSF tree and
> declaring that there is a test case but it's proprietary code, in 
> this circumstance.  However, developing non-encumbered test cases
> is certainly a Good Thing, 

Yes, no one disagrees with that!

> and IMO worth spending time on.

That's of course the issue, worth it to whom? And who
covers the cost of this time. It's just a matter of
balancing resources as usual.

> It sounds like you have a regression test harness internally; would
> it be practical to clean that up and contribute it?

I think the clean up would be more effort than rewriting by quite
a large margin. The current script is tied into our whole system
for bug tracking etc.