From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,ed34204f6da15e19 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news3.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!bcklog1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.bt.com!news.bt.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2006 13:00:43 -0500 Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2006 19:00:38 +0100 From: Martin Dowie User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (Windows/20060516) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: DTraq Released References: <44916CA0.9080909@earthlink.net> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <-P-dnQ407M3WFATZnZ2dnUVZ8s-dnZ2d@bt.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 81.155.38.142 X-AuthenticatedUsername: NoAuthUser X-Trace: sv3-FpbLt1lArz/5/jDONqL2d8MQTPfzcPX2EAXBjDnKYukcITwUMHt2R9LKe29D8eGc6oaEJs9Os9mId4M!tGgvV46ZUC2+GbLKb2xelPlo+PdAcr1Y6B1zvCa57z2NTnP+P2vKLAJrZugWEB3AykGpU93p1CE= X-Complaints-To: abuse@btinternet.com X-DMCA-Complaints-To: abuse@btinternet.com X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.32 Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:4876 Date: 2006-06-21T19:00:38+01:00 List-Id: M E Leypold wrote: > Martin Dowie writes: > >> M E Leypold wrote: >>> It's less emotion on my part or obsessiveness for my code. It's just >> [snip] >>> the reasons I already sort of regret that I started this discussion. > >> GNAT isn't the only Ada compiler out there - there are low cost <$1000 >> Ada compiler available from Aonix and RR Software. Both have GUI >> builders > >> (at least for Windows). > > Exactly: "at least for windows". As I said: I regret I started the > discussion. I actually wanted to understand why someone thinks he must > license under GPL when I thought wether he could use GMGPL. > > But the discussion is already being distorted into "but you can use > other compilers than GNAT". Sorry, Martin, but "just any Ada compiler" > is hardly a criterion to select a programming system. And to "GNAT > isn't the only Ada compiler" out there I'm tempted to respond that > GNAT isn't even the only compiler out there. :-). No, but it seems to be the one you're interested in otherwise why mention AdaCore and their ~$15k license? :-) Cheers -- Martin