From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,3ba18d626276a71e X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Chris Morgan Subject: Re: Towards a free GNU Ada Date: 1997/07/06 Message-ID: <33C06995.4CC4@ix.netcom.com.spam>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 255112919 References: <33BBB704.167E@velveeta.apdev.cs.mci.com> <33BFCFC4.1FF@ix.netcom.com.spam> <33BFEE00.5FCC@worldnet.att.net> Organization: Linux Hackers Unlimited X-NETCOM-Date: Sun Jul 06 7:58:52 PM CDT 1997 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1997-07-06T19:58:52-05:00 List-Id: James S. Rogers wrote: > > > With respect I think this is a load of nonsense! > > After having a private email conversation with Robert Dewar I must > agree. > > Having been the misguided soul who started this thread, I also want > to point out how absurd my earlier statement was. > > I hope I have learned a valuable netiquette lesson here. I don't think you violated netiquette. It's fine to discuss these things here and in fact in the past many of the discussions have led to useful developments (e.g. the original discussions on wanting to have a GNAT mailing list). Your post was thus properly "formed" but had some deeper problems, it was thus a semantic error not a syntactical one :-) I too have sometimes wanted GNAT releases before they were public but on balance it's a good thing ACT do what they do. I spent some time as technical representative of a project that had fully paid-for ACT support. I found the ACT support to be better than that of most other software companies, certainly as good as any other support we ever had. Now I'm on the outside again sure I'll sometimes think "I wish I could lay my hands on version x.x" (in fact I'm quite interested in the gdb improvements and the SPITBOL-like string handling library in 3.10) but I know that releasing it prematurely could delay 3.11, so on balance I don't want it until it _is_ ready. -- Chris Morgan "Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,"