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From: kilgallen@eisner.decus.org (Larry Kilgallen)
Subject: Re: Lack of Mature Tools (was: Lockheed Martin, Green Hills, etc.)
Date: 2000/04/26
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Date: 2000-04-26T00:00:00+00:00
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In article <8e6upv$3au$1@nnrp1.deja.com>, Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com> writes:
> In article <87ln212ghg.fsf@think.mihalis.net>,
>   Chris Morgan <cm@mihalis.net> wrote:

>> Fair enough.  But if I download this new p version and
>> have a problem, it shouldn't be hard to verify my version.
> 
> Well you wil have to find someone willing to provide the
> guarantees for that verification.  Ada Core Technologies is
> not prepared to provide any guarantees here.

And what constitutes "verification" ?

One test might be whether it matches what everybody else has.
With a little effort, Chris or somebody similarly motivated
could set up a service where everybody submitted _their_
MD5 hash of the such-and-such package and learned whether
it matched the MD5 hash others had submitted.