Re: Is 3.15p -still- the latest GNAT 'p' release?

[Ludovic Brenta <ludovic.brenta@insalien.org>]

Marin David Condic <nobody@noplace.com> writes:

> Even if 3.15p is a little old, it seems to me that there wouldn't
> really be much reason to complain about it. It works quite well and
> has a lot of features and, since we're talking about a compiler for a
> computer language, how much more does it really need to do? If the
> language changes - sure - there's cause to want a new release. If ACT
> increases their library of utilities, again, there's cause to want the
> new libraries - but that's almost a separate product in the sense that
> it would likely work with an older version of the compiler. You could
> probably freeze 3.15p and never make another release and still have a
> perfectly usable product. Have we been conditioned by Microsoft to
> think that unless we get a new release every quarter we are somehow
> missing out on something we absolutely have to have?

Heh, I was refraining from saying just that for fear of looking like
an emotional Ada bigot and Microsoft basher.  Now there's two of us :)

-- 
Ludovic Brenta.