Re: [gentoo-dev] Ada project needs your help!

2016-12-18 Thread Christopher Head
On Thu, 15 Dec 2016 12:55:43 -0800 Matt Turner wrote: > On Sun, Dec 11, 2016 at 7:59 AM, Michał Górny > wrote: > > dev-lang/gnat-gcc > > Something I've wondered about since I used gnat-gcc for assignments as > an undergrad -- why is gnat-gcc a separate

Re: [gentoo-dev] Ada project needs your help!

2016-12-17 Thread Alfredo Tupone
Il giorno Sun, 11 Dec 2016 16:59:50 +0100 Michał Górny ha scritto: > Hello, everyone. > > The Ada project seriously needs help. For some time already, it has no > active developers (George is retiring), and a lot of bugs needing > attention. > > The packages maintained by

Re: [gentoo-dev] Ada project needs your help!

2016-12-15 Thread andymenderunix
message From: Matt Turner <matts...@gentoo.org> Date: 15/12/2016 21:55 (GMT+01:00) To: gentoo development <gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org> Cc: a...@gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Ada project needs your help! On Sun, Dec 11, 2016 at 7:59 AM, Michał Górny <mgo...@gentoo.or

Re: [gentoo-dev] Ada project needs your help!

2016-12-15 Thread Matt Turner
On Sun, Dec 11, 2016 at 7:59 AM, Michał Górny wrote: > dev-lang/gnat-gcc Something I've wondered about since I used gnat-gcc for assignments as an undergrad -- why is gnat-gcc a separate package from gcc? Isn't the Ada frontend just part of gcc? Why not just a gcc[ada] USE

Re: [gentoo-dev] Ada project needs your help!

2016-12-15 Thread Christopher Head
On December 15, 2016 12:19:05 AM PST, "Michał Górny" wrote: >Would it be fine with you if we kept gnat-gcc and ghdl? (but lastrited >dev-ada/*) I personally have no use for the others. -- Christopher Head

Re: [gentoo-dev] Ada project needs your help!

2016-12-15 Thread Michał Górny
On Wed, 14 Dec 2016 23:11:33 -0800 Christopher Head wrote: > On Wed, 14 Dec 2016 16:47:41 +0100 > Michał Górny wrote: > > > So the only real consumer is GHDL -- yet another case when someone > > thought it'd be fun to use a fringe language to implement

Re: [gentoo-dev] Ada project needs your help!

2016-12-14 Thread Christopher Head
On Wed, 14 Dec 2016 16:47:41 +0100 Michał Górny wrote: > So the only real consumer is GHDL -- yet another case when someone > thought it'd be fun to use a fringe language to implement something > useful... However, it seems to be undermaintained in Gentoo as well, > not bumped

Re: [gentoo-dev] Ada project needs your help!

2016-12-14 Thread M. J. Everitt
On 14/12/16 15:47, Michał Górny wrote: > On Wed, 14 Dec 2016 08:30:00 + > "M. J. Everitt" wrote: > >> On 14/12/16 08:26, Christopher Head wrote: >>> On Sun, 11 Dec 2016 16:59:50 +0100 >>> Michał Górny wrote: >>> Hello, everyone. The

Re: [gentoo-dev] Ada project needs your help!

2016-12-14 Thread Michał Górny
On Wed, 14 Dec 2016 08:30:00 + "M. J. Everitt" wrote: > On 14/12/16 08:26, Christopher Head wrote: > > On Sun, 11 Dec 2016 16:59:50 +0100 > > Michał Górny wrote: > > > >> Hello, everyone. > >> > >> The Ada project seriously needs help. For some time

Re: [gentoo-dev] Ada project needs your help!

2016-12-14 Thread M. J. Everitt
On 14/12/16 08:26, Christopher Head wrote: > On Sun, 11 Dec 2016 16:59:50 +0100 > Michał Górny wrote: > >> Hello, everyone. >> >> The Ada project seriously needs help. For some time already, it has no >> active developers (George is retiring), and a lot of bugs needing >>

Re: [gentoo-dev] Ada project needs your help!

2016-12-14 Thread Christopher Head
On Sun, 11 Dec 2016 16:59:50 +0100 Michał Górny wrote: > Hello, everyone. > > The Ada project seriously needs help. For some time already, it has no > active developers (George is retiring), and a lot of bugs needing > attention. > > The packages maintained by aga@g.o are: >