The compiler project team has promised in spoken and written word to deliver Ada support with the next case. LSARC/2009/575 is this next case. Should a project team allowed to promise a place in heaven, later break their word and get away with this?
2009/11/5 Rainer Orth <ro at techfak.uni-bielefeld.de>: > =?KOI8-R?B?z8zYx8Egy9LZ1sHOz9fTy8HR?= writes: > >> Ada language support was not addressed, too. This is the second time >> the compiler project team is not implementing support. > > I think this (and Java support) could and should be separate cases. Most > likely, the community can help here. Especially doing Ada is somewhat hard > due to the bootstrap issue: you need a working Ada compiler (GNAT in > particular) on all the build machines to properly build Ada. > >> How do I appeal a PSARC case? > > Good question: completely ignoring a considerable set of questions and > objections doesn't seem right. > > Rainer > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Rainer Orth, Center for Biotechnology, Bielefeld University > -- , _ _ , { \/`o;====- Olga Kryzhanovska -====;o`\/ } .----'-/`-/ olga.kryzhanovska at gmail.com \-`\-'----. `'-..-| / Solaris/BSD//C/C++ programmer \ |-..-'` /\/\ /\/\ `--` `--`