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,d581a4c04b0d7daf X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!postnews.google.com!g10g2000cwb.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: "Ludovic Brenta" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: SAL, Auto_Text_IO release Date: 19 Jun 2006 05:46:55 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1150721215.234108.92870@g10g2000cwb.googlegroups.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: 212.123.3.11 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Trace: posting.google.com 1150721221 20085 127.0.0.1 (19 Jun 2006 12:47:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2006 12:47:01 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: User-Agent: G2/0.2 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS sun4u; fr-FR; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040116,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) X-HTTP-Via: 1.1 KUUPXS02 Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: g10g2000cwb.googlegroups.com; posting-host=212.123.3.11; posting-account=ZjNXewwAAADyBPkwI57_UcX8yKfXWOss Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:4831 Date: 2006-06-19T05:46:55-07:00 List-Id: 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.