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: 103376,30a9bb3017fa58dd X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,959627a08fbc77c5 X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public From: Robert Dewar Subject: Re: GNAT versions ( was :Ada compiler for PC?) Date: 1999/04/23 Message-ID: <7fql2a$hgs$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 470071536 References: <3718ccb6.3581307@news.mindspring.com> <3718d384.254178@news.pacbell.net> <1999Apr20.073527.1@eisner> <7fi2k3$lv9$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <371C99DD.F15ADC4B@spam.com> <7fkkoi$ui$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <371DF7CE.C7D7C1F@spam.com> <1999Apr21.142617.1@eisner> <371E2F2A.662C8F4F@spam.com> <7fndu7$im4$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <371F8B02.9BD7045F@spam.com> <7fomsh$p8u$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <86lnfjx5rx.fsf@coulee.tdb.com> <7fq3mh$16m1@news1.newsguy.com> X-Http-Proxy: 1.0 x13.dejanews.com:80 (Squid/1.1.22) for client 205.232.38.14 Organization: Deja News - The Leader in Internet Discussion X-Article-Creation-Date: Fri Apr 23 20:26:55 1999 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,gnu.misc.discuss X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/4.04 [en] (OS/2; I) Date: 1999-04-23T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <7fq3mh$16m1@news1.newsguy.com>, Samuel Mize wrote: > I've just heard complaints based > in a desire to see and comment on work in progress, and > the occasional > vague suspicion that wavefronts have "the good stuff." Well some wavefronts have "the good stuff", but unfortunately, from time to time, some of them, especially the ones we do NOT send to anyone at all, have "the bad stuff". Asking for wavefronts to be widely distributed is sort of like asking for drugs to be made available immediately to the public before they are tested. It might save some lives, but also may kill some people! It's our job to separate the good from the bad, and make sure that only the good stuff gets to the final releases. We are getting pretty near that point with 3.12 now, and so pretty soon the Ada community, both those using the commercial version of GNAT Professional, and those using the public version, will be able to get their hands on all the good stuff. I will post announcements here on CLA as the 3.12 release process progresses. It will go through the following stages: 1. Preliminary beta release for selected targets to selected users. 2. General beta release of GNAT Professional available to all our customers, available on almost all targets. 3. Official release of GNAT Professional, available on all supported targets. 4. Release of the public version on all targets. One thing that we like to do if we can is to distribute for all targets at about the same time (we get yelled at loudly on CLA and elsewhere if we don't release for all targets at about the same time, since that understandably frustrates people -- yes yes I know the OS/2 users are frustrated right now for example, and this is a situation that we try to avoid). So we like to wait till kinks on all targets are ironed out before distributing the public version. But everything is going smoothly, there are significant functionality improvements, performance improvements, new tools, and many bugs fixed in 3.12. For those interested in learning more about our release procedures and policies, they have been discussed at length on CLA in the past, so a scan of the Dejanews archives will undoubtedly tell you all that you want to know, and more on this issue. Robert Dewar Ada Core Technologies -----------== Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==---------- http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own