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From: Ronald Cole <ronald@forte-intl.com>
Subject: Re: Gnat Free ?
Date: 1998/10/18
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dewarr@my-dejanews.com writes:
> We think it is in the best interests of the Ada community and the GNAT project
> to ensure that the public versions of GNAT that are distributed are as free
> as possible from glitches that will cause unsupported users to run into
> trouble. We think that it is better to wait, and perhaps be a little behind
> the latest-and-greatest, rather than deal with glitches.

Just judging from the HPPA optimizer bugs in 3.09 (and the fact that they
went unfixed in 3.10p), you've been having problems meeting your own goal.

> We certainly have never "threatened to consider not doing
> business with any one who starts giving out wavefront". That is
> pure fantasy on the part of Ronald Cole.
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It's certinly ironic that the post you claim is "pure fantasy" is
archived at dejanews...  Took me all of 5 minutes to find, too.

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