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: 1025b4,959627a08fbc77c5 X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,30a9bb3017fa58dd X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Robert Dewar Subject: Re: GNAT versions ( was :Ada compiler for PC?) Date: 1999/04/23 Message-ID: <7fqld6$htu$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 470071646 References: <3718ccb6.3581307@news.mindspring.com> <3718d384.254178@news.pacbell.net> <1999Apr20.073527.1@eisner> <7fi2k3$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> <86n1zz43dt.fsf@coulee.tdb.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 20:32:38 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 <86n1zz43dt.fsf@coulee.tdb.com>, Russell Senior wrote: > It has further been > noted that recipients of the `non-public' releases tend > not to share them with others, despite their legal right > to do so. I am curious to > know what goes into their calculus for deciding not to. > That is all. People have many motives for their actions. Just because something is legal does not mean it is a good idea to do it. Probably in practice, when it comes to wavefronts, people realize that the are only useful in the specific case where they are necessary to solve a particular bug. Note that we do not even make wavefronts available to all our customers, we only make them available in specific cases if in our judgment it is the only way to work around a specific problem. Distributing these work-in-progress snap-shots can certainly cause a lot of confusion. As you know, we are of the opinion that it is undesirable to the Ada community as a whole to distribute these widely. Sure there are a few hackers and enthusiasts who would like to fiddle with the latest and greatest, but we have to consider the interests of the community as a whole, and I guess the fact that the wavefronts do not get redistributed is an indication that our customers agree with our judgment here. Indeed most of our customers would prefer NOT to get wavefronts, and instead work around problems with our help in the official releases, and that seems perfectly reasonable. Robert Dewar Ada Core Technologies -----------== Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==---------- http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own