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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,d581a4c04b0d7daf X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: SAL, Auto_Text_IO release References: From: M E Leypold Date: 30 Jun 2006 10:29:55 +0200 Message-ID: <5cy7vf2gho.fsf@hod.lan.m-e-leypold.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii User-Agent: Some cool user agent (SCUG) NNTP-Posting-Host: 88.72.230.215 X-Trace: news.arcor-ip.de 1151655811 88.72.230.215 (30 Jun 2006 10:23:31 +0200) X-Complaints-To: abuse@arcor-ip.de Path: g2news2.google.com!news1.google.com!news4.google.com!newshub.sdsu.edu!newsfeed.freenet.de!news.osn.de!diablo2.news.osn.de!news.belwue.de!newsfeed.arcor.de!newsfeed.arcor-ip.de!news.arcor-ip.de!not-for-mail Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:5368 Date: 2006-06-30T10:29:55+02:00 List-Id: Stephen Leake writes: > M E Leypold 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