Re: Do you do ASIS?

[Joe Wisniewski <wisniew@acm.org>]

In article <89pkls$abk$1@nnrp1.deja.com>,
  Joe Wisniewski <wisniew@acm.org> wrote:
> In article <VyXv4.2560$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.)

     I believe Aonix also has the 2.0 interface, but I believe that
     that they don't have the data decomposition annex. Sorry, Steve,
     didn't mean to slight you guys.

     Joe

>    , 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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