From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,811994053dd2a9e9 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) Subject: Re: GNAT 2.04 Install Problem!!! Date: 1995/04/21 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 101370104 references: <3n0jip$58l@michp1.redstone.army.mil> <3n8hal$h5s@news.znet.com> organization: Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1995-04-21T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Gosh Jim (Dorman), you must be the producer of truly great software if you never had the experience of doing what you thought was thorough testing and then finding out that a product you had shipped had a bug! If you achieve this reliably (never sending out software with a bug), you must be hugely successful, since I know of no other company or software product for the general use environment that can make such a claim. Indeed I suggest you share your secrets with Borland, Microsoft, and Lotus as soon as possible. Of course we don't guarantee that GNAT is bug free. The best we can do is to respond to problems, which we do as quickly as possible. As I have noted the TZ stuff was a real pain (caused by all our beta testers who tried the thing out living in EST, a mistake of course we won't repeat). Note that the documentation ALWAYS gave the solution to this problem, so the problems were caused by not carefully following the documentation. But it is still a bug, because good software should not make you read the documentation carefully. So the best we can do is to fix it, and we already have in our wave front version. 2.05 (with this fix and other new features and new fixes) will be out sometime next week. Certainly if you are demanding software that is guaranteed to be 100% free of problems, please do not talk to us, and please do not use GNAT. Instead by all means go knock on Jim Dorman's door, or any other door that you think can provide such service :-)