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Subject: Which old version is best to use?  don't trust Adacore anymore
From: patrick@spellingbeewinnars.org
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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