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: 103376,3ba18d626276a71e X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Ronald Cole Subject: Re: Towards a free GNU Ada Date: 1997/07/10 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 256034617 Sender: ronald@devo.ridgenet.net References: <33BBB704.167E@velveeta.apdev.cs.mci.com> Organization: RidgeNet - SLIP/PPP Internet, Ridgecrest, CA. (760) 371-3501 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1997-07-10T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) writes: > The current > discussion is simply about whether we should wait to publicly distribute > versions of GNAT until we feel that they are in sufficiently good shape > to distribute, given that many or indeed most people will be using these > versions without support. We strongly feel that the premature distribution > of versions of GNAT would be harmful to the Ada community, and from both > the public postings here, and many private email messages I have received, > I have the impression that most people support this position. ... > At no time do we distribute subset or crippled versions of GNAT. When > we make public distributions, we are distributing the latest version, > which includes our full technology. If you have got some other > impression, you are very much mistaken. Gee, I thought you had said that your policy is to only release stable, well-tested versions of GNAT publicly. Of that I'm not mistaken! In fact, you did the HPUX community a great disservice by releasing 3.09 with a "latest-version" gcc-272.dif file that contained patches that were far from well-tested. > As I mention above, the issue > in the current thread has been whether ACT should publicly distribute > versions of GNAT that it does not feel are ready for public release. > We don't think this is a good idea. Neither do I, which is why I bitched in the first place. And as I stated earlier, I'll reserve further comment until 3.10 is released publicly. -- Forte International, P.O. Box 1412, Ridgecrest, CA 93556-1412 Ronald Cole Phone: (760) 499-9142 President, CEO Fax: (760) 499-9152 My PGP fingerprint: E9 A8 E3 68 61 88 EF 43 56 2B CE 3E E9 8F 3F 2B