From: Robert Dewar <dewar@gnat.com>
Subject: Re: Compilers for VAX Was: Ada version of C's 'static'
Date: 1999/08/04
Date: 1999-08-04T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7o9vde$oh4$1@nnrp1.deja.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 37A85405.D4754286@pwfl.com
In article <37A85405.D4754286@pwfl.com>,
e108678@pwflcom wrote:
> So it would seem that if you could find a handful of
> interested parties who would have use
> for a VAX/VMS version, it would be possible to share the cost
> and it might actually get done.
> Putting together such a consortium might be a useful way of
> getting GNAT (or any other
> product for that matter) ported to more obscure platforms.
>
> Of course, I'm not sure how that would play with anti-trust
> laws.... :-)
Of course it would get done (by ACT) if several people were
seriously interested in commercial support. So far we have not
had even ONE potential customer contact our sales department
regarding a VAX VMS port as far as I know. Yes, I know of some
expressions of vague interest on CLA, but there is a big
distance between such vague expressions of interest and real
commercial interest that can be backed up with a check :-)
If anyone is seriously interested in a VAX port, they should
contact sales@gnat.com expressing this interest.
Obviously ACT is quite willing to do the port if it is paid for,
and if lots of people are interested, of course that reduces the
individual cost. Indeed if enough people are interested, we may
even decide to invest ACT funds in such a port (as we have for
several other ports in the past). But zero people expressing
interest so far is not a good start :-(
Robert Dewar
Ada Core Technologies
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~1999-08-04 0:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-07-19 0:00 Ada version of C's 'static' Craig Allen
1999-07-19 0:00 ` David Botton
1999-07-20 0:00 ` Simon Wright
1999-07-23 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1999-07-30 0:00 ` Craig Allen
1999-08-03 0:00 ` Compilers for VAX Was: " Erdelyi Gaspar
1999-08-03 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-08-04 0:00 ` Steve Doiel
1999-08-05 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-08-05 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-08-06 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1999-08-06 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-08-09 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1999-08-09 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-08-09 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1999-08-10 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1999-08-08 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-08-04 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-08-04 0:00 ` Chris Miller
1999-08-05 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-08-04 0:00 ` Rod Chapman
1999-08-04 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-08-04 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-08-04 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1999-08-04 0:00 ` Robert Dewar [this message]
1999-08-04 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-08-04 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
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