Re: SAL, Auto_Text_IO release

["Ludovic Brenta" <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>]

M E Leypold declaimed in a spectral voice:
> Some of us are still stuck with 3.15p. We can't GPL our customers code
> and being so small we can't pay the ACT support. So we use 3.15p. We
> cannot use Ada 2005. We are stuck. "This will take longer" we say to
> our customers. "We don't have 'not null'". "This will not look like
> OO, this must be Ada 95". And our projects are riddled with old bugs
> of 3.15p and ICEs and everything takes a million years and all our
> programs crash. We all die. Oh the embarrasment.

But the upgrade path from GNAT 3.15p is quite clear: if you need the
GMGPL but can't or won't pay for GNAT Pro, then migrate to GCC 4.1,
then 4.2 when it is released.  Debian implements that strategy: Sarge
since June 2005 has GNAT 3.15p with several bug fixes; Etch in December
2006 will have GCC 4.1 (already has it, in fact, in testing).

If you need all of AdaCore's libraries in GMGPL binary packages, that's
one more reason to use Debian or, alternatively, one of GNU Ada's
packages. Or roll your own binary packages.

-- 
Ludovic Brenta.