Re: GNAT

[Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>]

jmarant@nerim.net (Jérôme Marant) writes:

>   What about ACT not fixing bugs in the GNAT public releases?

They do fix them, but they have extremely long release cycles.

>   What about them not caring at all for bugs reported in the
>   BTS and not sending any patch?

Only two of the bug reports have been forwarded to them, so you can't
really blame ACT.  And for one of those forwarded bug reports, I
remember reading public comments by ACT.

>   The next GNAT maintainer must be warned that ACT does not
>   cooperate very nicely with the community and it is still the case
>   of the GNAT in the GCC tree.

ACT is quite helpful even if you haven't got a support contract, but
they do not accept proxies, i.e. they expect Debian users to contact
them directly.

I won't comment on the GCC tree situation.