Re: About GVD

[Jérôme Marant <marant.logatique@fr.thalesgroup.com>]

On Wed, Aug 07, 2002 at 12:13:43PM +0200, Russell Coker wrote:
> On Wed, 7 Aug 2002 09:23, Jérôme Marant wrote:
> >   Some not-yet-debian-developer intends to adopt GVD (the GNU Visual
> > Debugger), a graphical debugger written in Ada95 (frontend to gdb), that
> > helps debugging C, C++ and Ada95.
> >   However, it seems that he doesn't know a word of Ada95.
> >   It is reasonnable for him to adopt the package?
> 
> Depends, if he's just bought some Ada95 text books and plans to learn it 
> quickly, and if he has a lot of experience in other programming languages 
> then he would probably do a good job.

  He told that he intends to learn the languga though.
 
> IMHO if you can't debug upstream bugs then you will not be able to do a good 
> job of maintaining a package.

  Agreed.

-- 
Jérôme Marant