Re: SAL, Auto_Text_IO release

[M E Leypold <development-2006-8ecbb5cc8aREMOVETHIS@ANDTHATm-e-leypold.de>]

Stephen Leake <Stephe.Leake@nasa.gov> writes:

> M E Leypold <development-2006-8ecbb5cc8aREMOVETHIS@ANDTHATm-e-leypold.de> writes:
> 
> > Would you oppose that I put the old version online without any much
> > advertising just as a reference and a convenience for other people
> > (which are perhaps not mirroring as much as I do :-).
> 
> That's fine with me.

OK. Thanks for your permission.

> >> Posting SAL on the web is partly egoizing, 
> >
> > I understand that. Don't we do that all? :-) 
> >
> >> partly general Ada awareness boosting.
> >
> > Got you there :-)). Let me tell: It's good for Ada, if not all Ada 95
> > files go away within the next months. Ada 2005 support has not reached
> > the masses yet completely :-)).
> 
> That's only true if you believe "the masses" can't use GPL runtime
> libraries. Yes, I have read your other posts on 3.15p. I'm not
> convinced :).

OK. I can live with your different opinion. Can't convince everyone,
and from our "15K is unaffordable" discussion we already know that we
live in somewhat different worlds. :-)

Just as a small, just so tinsy correction -- when I said, Ada 2005
hasn't reached the masses yet, I were not talking about that "the
masses" can't use GPL Gnat, but rather, that most Gnats coming with
current distributions are not Ada 2005 yet: Debian has 3.15p, SuSE
9.x, AFAIK know had a gcc 3.x based Gnat and so on: People dont'
upgrade a working system every three months, so I'd expect it to take
around 10 month from now until current distro don't carry 3.15p any
more, and at least further 18 months from then until most occurrences
of 3.15p in the wild go away. Of course that is all based on the
assumption that somebody is actually using Ada, except people with Ada
at work and presumably an ACT support contract there, also. Which is a
thing that could well be.

Regards -- Markus