Reenabling Ada by default

[Zack Weinberg]

[Would you mind trimming down your quotes a bit?]

Robert Dewar <dewar@gnat.com> writes:
> Zack Weinberg wrote:
>> Richard Kenner writes:
>>>(1) The set of people who modify it is very localized.  There are
>>>extremely few (perhaps no) people on this list outside of ACT/ACTE
>>>who are knowlegable enough to make Ada front-end modifications
>>>...
>> 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.

This is another problem that faces all other corporate-funded
contributors to GCC, too, and guess what?  We all somehow manage to
deal.  Usually by coming up with synthetic non-encumbered test cases.

zw