Re: General informations about ASIS

[Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>]

Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne) wrote:
> On 15 fév, 08:55, Ludovic Brenta <ludo...@ludovic-brenta.org> wrote:
>
> > Debian 4.0 "Etch" includes a package libasis-dev version 2005-5. This
> > reflects the fact that this version of ASIS is from GNAT GPL 2005
> > Edition; not to any version of the ASIS standard.  Similarly, 5.0
> > "Lenny" has the version from GNAT GPL 2007 Edition.
>
> And does it differ a lot from the standard ?
>
> But.... what I do not understand is : is it really ASIS if it is not
> the standard ? It it does not comply to the ASIS standard, then, it
> cannot be ASIS... or am I wrong in some way ?

The package "asis"  in Debian contains an *implementation* of the
standard, not the standard itself. This implementation has a version
number, in this case 2005 (in Etch) or 2007 (in Lenny). The standard
has another version number and is non-free (copyright ISO, no
redistribution allowed) so is not included in Debian; and the standard
is not software, it is only a document.

> I've found something (cannot remember where, I forgot to bookmark the
> source), a file named asis20s, which seems to be a set of package
> specifications for ASIS 2005, but there is no reference at all to any
> author (nor to GNAT as well). Do you know this file ?

That's the draft of the standard (a document), not an implementation
(software).

--
Ludovic Brenta.