Re: GNAT 3.14 NEW FEATURES LIST Current as of May 30th, 2001

[nickerson@mirage.boeing.com ()]

In article <5ee5b646.0107021806.57ece321@posting.google.com>, 
dewar@gnat.com (Robert Dewar) writes:

|>There is currently no firm schedule for 3.14p (as previously noted
|>in CLA, we never publish advance schedules for the public versions,
|>since the work to produce them has low priority). 

yep, I know; actually I wish we had a running count on the 
reiterations of this policy; a monthy posting of an ACT-GNAT.FAQ
would be in order to keep the counter in 3 decimal digits;

Bart wrote in message news:<GFprKI.Htx@news.boeing.com>...
|>> binaries for various platforms never appeared at 
|>> ftp://cs.nyu.edu/pub/gnat/
|>> for the 3.13p release; 
.. <history snipped>

and Robert Dewar also replied:
|> ... At ACT, we build
|>public binaries for a small number of the platforms most likely to
|>be used by students and for the production of Free Software. The
|>remaining binary versions can be built from the provided sources,
|>using the previous version of the compiler (i.e. 3.13 is required
|>for building 3.14).

can this be construed as an ACT policy change? 3.10p (Sep1997) /
3.11p (Feb1999) / 3.12p (Oct1999) all had about 10 architecture+OS 
platforms provided (some probably volunteer - no way I can tell); 
3.13p (Aug2000) had 3 !!! platforms; 

I've heard the "likely to be used by students" before - but how did
they all so suddenly lose access to Apple,CPQ,HP,IBM,SGI brands of 
unix; I haven't heard the "and for the production of Free Software" 
phrase - again maybe for lacking the attention span required by 
c.l.a; I'm about ready to jump to a misconception here ??? comments?


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