Re: Do you do ASIS?

[Joe Wisniewski <wisniew@acm.org>]

In article <VyXv4.2560$w9.46549@news.pacbell.net>,
  tmoran@bix.com wrote:
> > Which vendor's compiler?  That is ultimately the question.
>
>   I don't understand.  Shouldn't a program that makes ASIS calls
> to fetch information work identically regardless of whose
> compiler, or whose ASIS implementation, it is calling?  (Not that
> there seem to be all that many choices...)  Or are you talking
> about efficiency and ease of use?
>

   In an ideal world, yes. The point is that not all of the vendors
   support ASIS (especially the ASIS 2.0 interface for Ada95).
   So, which vendor you use is critical to the answer to the question.

   ACT has implemented pretty much all of the 2.0 interface including
   the Data Decomposition package. OCS is working on this. Rational
   has several versions of ASIS depending on whether you are using
   Ada83 or Ada95. The last time that I talked to someone at
   DDC-I or RR, they had no plans on rolling to the 2.0 spec.

   AFAIK, no other vendors have plans on implementing
   the 2.0 interface (although some support the 1.0 interface at
   various levels.) , for various reasons, I suppose. Some are
   supporting their customers needs for ASIS tools directly, some
   don't see a market, some .... I don't know. (I'm not intentionally
   leaving anyone's products out of this discussion. Please chime in.)

   This all goes to the core of my original post.

Joe



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