Re: Gnat GPS to be released to the public?

["Marin David Condic" <mcondic.auntie.spam@acm.org>]

Stephen Leake <Stephen.A.Leake@nasa.gov> wrote in message
news:ubrzy19cz.fsf@nasa.gov...
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> ACT does not make public statements about future release schedules.
> Basically, they acknowledge that it is impossible to reliably answer
> the question "How long will it take you to find that bug?" :).
>

But.... but.... but.... Isn't it written in Ada?!?!?! There shouldn't BE any
bugs if its written in Ada?!?!?! :-)

Realistically, if they wanted to release things on a schedule, they could.
Once you have a baseline product that basically works, you could aim for
quarterly releases and you just get the snapshot of whatever changes have
been closed out to that point in time. You pick your date of release and
count backwards the time you need to run some sort of regression tests,
write up some documentation, etc., then take a snapshot of your software at
that point and release it.

I suspect that the reasoning has more to do with marketing strategy and
monetary concerns than it does with bug fixes and stability.

MDC
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