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Re: gnat

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Thomas Bushnell, BSG)
Tue Dec 22 11:55:13 1998

To: Robert A Basch <rbasch@MIT.EDU>
Cc: release-team@MIT.EDU
From: tb@MIT.EDU (Thomas Bushnell, BSG)
Date: 22 Dec 1998 11:55:06 -0500
In-Reply-To: Robert A Basch's message of Tue, 22 Dec 1998 09:03:14 EST

Robert A Basch <rbasch@MIT.EDU> writes:

> I mentioned this to Greg a few days ago, and he indicated that we
> should probably skip it, given that there is not much ada use here.
> Anyone else have an opinion here about whether to install gnat?
> We could wait for someone to ask for it, at the risk of making a
> bit more work for ourselves later on...

I agree.

If there were a sudden demand for ADA, I'd be happy to add gnat to the
GNU locker too.  If it were suddenly needed by people, then I imagine
they would want it on Suns too.


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