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: 103376,8f734cdbc8408497 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: James E. Hopper Subject: Re: Gnat 2.06 Ada95 (unix) File format???? Date: 1996/06/15 Message-ID: <4pte3s$ae5@news.erinet.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 160271975 distribution: world references: <4pmfr5$epc@news3.digex.net> content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 x-xxmessage-id: organization: Personal mime-version: 1.0 newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1996-06-15T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article Ronald Cole, ronald@ridgecrest.ca.us writes: >I often wonder why people want to use GNAT at all for anything >serious... After all, the current release will be an old, stale, >dysfunctional piece of shit and completely disowned by Robert Dewar >immediately after the next release! (or so he keeps telling the bloke >who keeps producing the Ada CD-ROM set a version or two behind...) > lets get real if he said that about 3.03 or 3.04 ok, but 2.06 is something like a year old! its real simple actually i just take each release source and build it for my mac. i pulled down 3.05 source last tues i think and had 3.05 running on my powermac the next day! its really quite simple ;-) Ok so it requires more knowledge than that but anyone can download the binaries for the supported architectures from the nyu ftp site. i can't imagine anyone doing serious development without internet access. even on the mac commercial compilers like codewarrior or MPW without internet access you are dooming yourself to running versions with bugs etc that have long been fixed. I suspect ACT's answer to people with support contracts is considerably different than people wanting free support for a compiler thats been long fixed. its one thing to offer free support on something that only requires you to use whats on your machine its another thing again to ask for someone for free to dig up year old archives and help you debug your problem. I have gotten much better support from ACT in our projects than i EVER got from verdix/Rational despite some truly monumental support payments! jim