Re: SAL, Auto_Text_IO release

[M E Leypold <development-2006-8ecbb5cc8a-REMOVETHIS@m-e-leypold.de>]

Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@acm.org> writes:

> I've downloaded GNAT GPL-2006, and it compiles all of my SAL and
> Auto_Text_IO code, and passes all tests, without problems. I think
> this is a first for a public GNAT release!
> 
> So I'm releasing a new version of SAL (2.00) and Auto_Text_IO (3.03).
> Support for GNAT 3.15p is now removed, making some things simpler;
> I've started using some Ada 2005 features (mainly 'raise ... with
> <string>;'.
> 
> There are lots of improvements in SAL; it's been almost two years
> since the last release, and I've been improving it a lot for work. The
> biggest additions are support for left- and right-multiply quaternions
> (a somewhat obscure topic, but it took a lot of effort :), and many
> more features for config files.
> 
> Auto_Text_IO hasn't changed much.
> 
> See http://www.toadmail.com/~ada_wizard/ for more info.


Some of us are still stuck with 3.15p. We can't GPL our customers code
and being so small we can't pay the ACT support. So we use 3.15p. We
cannot use Ada 2005. We are stuck. "This will take longer" we say to
our customers. "We don't have 'not null'". "This will not look like
OO, this must be Ada 95". And our projects are riddled with old bugs
of 3.15p and ICEs and everything takes a million years and all our
programs crash. We all die. Oh the embarrasment.

Would you, in the light of that situation perhaps, I ask humbly,
consider, to also link the old versions (the last with 3.15p-Support)?

BTW: Joe Haldeman, A !Tangled Web. ("!" is supposed to be a click
sound as in some african languages).

Regards -- Markus