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: 103376,81ad2a544a72a777 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!atl-c08.usenetserver.com!news.usenetserver.com!pc01.usenetserver.com!ALLTEL.NET-a2kHrUvQQWlmc!not-for-mail Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 09:17:44 -0500 From: "Marc A. Criley" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: GNAT in Debian, heads up References: <87irvuejhc.fsf@ludovic-brenta.org> <87ek6iecj2.fsf@ludovic-brenta.org> <871x2he4vb.fsf_-_@ludovic-brenta.org> <87u0fdcp6l.fsf@ludovic-brenta.org> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <1a4a6$4357a735$499533b$24545@ALLTEL.NET> X-Complaints-To: abuse@usenetserver.com Organization: UseNetServer.com X-Trace: 1a4a64357a735a13cf69e24545 Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:5815 Date: 2005-10-20T09:17:44-05:00 List-Id: 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 -- McKae Technologies -- www.mckae.com -- DTraq - XPath In Ada - XML EZ Out