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: 103376,4eb65fab6deaa097 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: "Tarjei Tj�stheim Jensen" Subject: Re: Lack of Mature Tools (was: Lockheed Martin, Green Hills, etc.) Date: 2000/05/06 Message-ID: <3913A546.3ADC7EB7@online.no>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 619863091 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <87aeidsgr8.fsf@think.mihalis.net> <8ep009$is3$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <8es4p0$423$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <87pur1ti2x.fsf@deneb.cygnus.argh.org> <8euj3d$qtk$1@nnrp1.deja.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: news-abuse@online.no X-Trace: news1.online.no 957588802 130.67.226.176 (Sat, 06 May 2000 06:53:22 MET DST) Organization: Jensen programvareutvikling MIME-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 06 May 2000 06:53:22 MET DST Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-05-06T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Ted Dennison wrote: > > Thanks. I had almost forgotten this one (an InstallShield-like app) from > my list of needed OpenSource programs that could be done in Ada. > Let me suggest a test case for such a thing: A Linux installer. If one can keep the dependencies right and show the consequences of choices in real time it will be very hard to avoid Ada on the Linux installation CDs. Current Linux installers tend to want to install too much too soon. They don't try to establish whether the basics works before trying to install the whole caboodle. Greetings,