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: 1999/04/25 Message-ID: <7fuaau$fk5$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 470583241 References: <3718ccb6.3581307@news.mindspring.com> <3718d384.254178@news.pacbell.net> <1999Apr20.073527.1@eisner> <7fi2k3$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> <7fqjo2$1hmi@news1.newsguy.com> X-Http-Proxy: 1.0 x17.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: Sun Apr 25 05:48:14 1999 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,gnu.misc.discuss X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/4.04 [en] (OS/2; I) Date: 1999-04-25T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <7fqjo2$1hmi@news1.newsguy.com>, Samuel Mize wrote: > A wavefront is an in-development copy that may not be > fully tested, hasn't been regression tested, hasn't been > through QA, and may be quite unstable. Actually that's *too* negative, we never let anything out of ACT, even a wavefront, that has not been fully regression tested against the ACVC suite, and against the internal (at this stage VERY substantial ACT regression suite). Indeed our normal internal procedure for ANY internal fix, however small, is to run the ACT regression suite before a checkin to make sure no regressions have occurred. Nevertheless, it is quite true that this does not represent "fully tested", since part of full testing is field testing at customer sites in a beta test program, which most certainly does not happen for each wavefront. As for QA, even a wavefront has been through our internal QA process, including running the ACVC test suite, our ACT regression suite, and the DEC test suite. However, once again, the full QA process most certainly includes beta testing, and this is only done on formal releases. -----------== Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==---------- http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own