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Subject: Re: ANN: Introducing AdaBase - Thick database bindings for Ada
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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.
>=20
> 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 use=
r has to fix their programs if they upgrade the library.  E.g. If 100 peopl=
e 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 int=
entionally breaking compatibility.

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

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