Re: ANN: Introducing AdaBase - Thick database bindings for Ada

[jrmarino <dragonlace.cla@marino.st>]

On Saturday, May 21, 2016 at 7:11:37 AM UTC+2, J-P. Rosen wrote:
> This shouldn't be an argument. Download AdaSubst from Adalog's web site.
> You provide a dictionary (a text file giving the old name and the new
> name), and the tool makes the necessary substitutions program-wide,
> taking all visibility rules, use clauses, etc. into consideration.
> 
> It can also be used to adjust programs when you move an element from a
> package to another one (great to split a big package into child packages).

Of course it is an argument!
You are saying, for the sake of sujective cosmetics, that every current user has to fix their programs if they upgrade the library.  E.g. If 100 people used it, and 250 programs were based on it, those 100 people would all to do the rework.  Frankly I can't think of anything more "anti-Ada" then intentionally breaking compatibility.

On the flip side, AdaBase isn't really "set" until PostgreSQL is finished and doubtfully anybody is using it seriously at all, so now would be the time to make breaking changed.

Much later, however, it is most definitely "an argument".