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From: patrick@spellingbeewinnars.org
Subject: Which old version is best to use?  don't trust Adacore anymore
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2018 04:49:30 -0700 (PDT)
Date: 2018-08-22T04:49:30-07:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2bd66110-61e4-45c2-b731-7387b45b1e56@googlegroups.com> (raw)

Hi Everyone

I like C, Ada and my favorite is COBOL. IF I like COBOL it's obvious I don't drink cool-aid. I just don't care about Ada 2005/2013 features.

As you know Adacore removed the pragma ada-83 and ada_95 recently.

Why remove simple features like this that will help people to run older code, They are laying a trap for future use. I am currently chewing bait, waiting for the hook to puncture.

Over here I found:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/gnuada/files/GNAT_P%20Sources/3.15/

I can download it's corresponding GCC and build it but is this the best version that is still GMGPL ?

Are there any security concerns that you know of with this old code? I am sure I could read online but if you happen to know of something that would be great.

Anyone interested in just forking and maintaining the old code and being done with Adacore's GPL-everything that is free, charge 10K for the rest, game ?

-Patrick

             reply	other threads:[~2018-08-22 11:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-08-22 11:49 patrick [this message]
2018-08-22 16:47 ` Which old version is best to use? don't trust Adacore anymore Shark8
2018-08-22 17:42 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2018-08-22 18:22   ` patrick
2018-08-22 19:50     ` Anh Vo
2018-08-22 22:23       ` patrick
2018-08-23  0:29         ` Dan'l Miller
2018-08-23 12:45 ` Mark Lorenzen
2018-08-23 15:32   ` patrick
2018-08-23 22:36     ` Lucretia
2018-08-24  7:21     ` Simon Wright
2018-08-24 12:44       ` patrick
2018-08-25 17:49         ` Brad Moore
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