Re: GNAT in Debian, heads up

["Marc A. Criley" <mcNOSPAM@mckae.com>]

Stanislav Tsekhmistroh wrote:

> The situation is like that:
> I understand that I need GNAT, but since the ACT rule the GNAT
> (at least by this moment :-)), and they don't even stoop to answer my
> email messages, I don't see other way than to take what we have and make
> all my best. Btw, my company is precisely in the category that "is out of
> the ACT scope".

Well, AdaCore is a business, and their business model centers on 
providing high-end support to their paying customers.  (And my past 
experience as a supported customer has been that their support is indeed 
among the industry's best.)  So, if you're requesting technical 
information or support, and you're not a paying customer, you're just 
not going to get much attention.  That said, they do accept bug reports 
from anyone and will pay attention to them, although again, if it's not 
a bug affecting any of their paying customers it likely won't be high on 
the priority list.  (Although I once reported a bug/deficiency while not 
a paying customer and was surprised to almost immediately get questioned 
about it, so bug reports from unsupported users _are_ reviewed.)

Anywho...

There's tons of expertise using GNAT here and in the comp.lang.ada 
archives just waiting to be tapped.

-- Marc A. Criley
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