[Please no CC on reply, I'm subscribed to the list] Florian Weimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (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. Would it be that hard for them to send patches? >> 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. Currently, only ACT customers will get bugfixes in a reasonnable time frame. So, bug reports help their customers rather than those who reported them, unfortunately. This is why I'm saying that this is not a proper cooperation with the community. >> 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. Yes, but again, they won't send patches. -- Jérôme Marant http://marant.org