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From: anon@anon.org (anon)
Subject: Re: GNAT GPL 2009
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 00:37:18 GMT
Date: 2009-03-25T00:37:18+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <21fyl.80009$4m1.70341@bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: ec8fcd56-9506-40f5-b077-585557cc3a48@b16g2000yqb.googlegroups.com

Might be true, but Java shows the oposite. In JAVA each newer release you 
will find some functions either altered or replaced.  People do get upset but 
would they switch, not on their life.  And that saying is more truer for the 
Ada programmer then all Java people combine.


In <ec8fcd56-9506-40f5-b077-585557cc3a48@b16g2000yqb.googlegroups.com>, Martin <martin.dowie@btopenworld.com> writes:
>On 24 Mar, 06:42, a...@anon.org (anon) wrote:
>> I was talking about the files in gnat-gpl-2008-src.tgz which contains
>> GPRMAKE.
>>
>> Since Robert Duff states that GPRMAKE is obsolete then why is GPRMAKE
>> still there?
>
>Backwards compatibility...same as Annex J. Can you image the hassle
>and bad-will you'd generate with your customers by just 'pulling' a
>tool?
>
>Cheers
>-- Martin




  reply	other threads:[~2009-03-25  0:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-03-19 19:49 GNAT GPL 2009 Martyn Pike
2009-03-19 23:01 ` roderick.chapman
2009-03-20  6:44   ` Martyn Pike
2009-03-20  2:51 ` anon
2009-03-23  8:18   ` Alex R. Mosteo
2009-03-23 10:07     ` anon
2009-03-23 10:28       ` ficorax
2009-03-23 21:11         ` anon
2009-03-23 21:25           ` Georg Bauhaus
2009-03-24  6:42             ` anon
2009-03-24  7:28               ` ficorax
2009-03-24  9:12               ` Martin
2009-03-25  0:37                 ` anon [this message]
2009-03-25  7:53                   ` Martin
2009-03-25 19:32                     ` anon
2009-03-25 21:32                 ` sjw
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