From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
Subject: Re: Thoughts on AdaCore maintaining GCC-incompatible GNAT sources
Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2011 21:03:31 +0000
Date: 2011-01-20T21:03:31+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2d3nrl23g.fsf@pushface.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: op.vpmee1akule2fv@garhos
"Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)" <yannick_duchene@yahoo.fr> writes:
> If really clients are allowed to re-distribute, this is indeed
> surprising, I could never believe this could be really possible:
> users/clients allowed to redistribute and none doing so. May be they
> feel that's better to not brake AdaCore business (I am talking about
> earnings) so that they are assured of a regular and good job done at
> maintaining the compiler ? (I would not expect it from the “crowd”,
> but they must be some kind of special users I believe).
We don't in general pay AdaCore to get the latest and greatest; we pay
to get support when we have problems, or need advice, and very good it
is too.
The project I'm (still, just) working on is stuck with a really old
compiler, for various reasons I don't think I need trouble you with. The
general tendency is to start a project with the latest compiler,
upgrading until some formal customer-visible release point, then freeze;
only moving up to a new release after that when there's a really good
reason to do so. AdaCore are still prepared (a bit grumpily, maybe,
sometimes) to help; but really most of the time it's our understanding
that's the issue.
As to why we don't copy the latest GNAT Pro to the world -- well, it's
not I who has the contract, it's my employer, and I don't think I'd get
very far trying to persuade the boss to permit the copying.
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Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-01-20 10:58 Thoughts on AdaCore maintaining GCC-incompatible GNAT sources deadlyhead
2011-01-20 13:37 ` Ludovic Brenta
2011-01-20 14:50 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-01-20 17:47 ` J-P. Rosen
2011-01-20 18:46 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-01-20 21:03 ` Simon Wright [this message]
2011-01-20 21:56 ` deadlyhead
2011-01-21 0:08 ` qunying
2011-01-21 4:43 ` Stephen Leake
2011-01-22 5:09 ` Randy Brukardt
2011-01-22 6:15 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-01-25 1:29 ` Randy Brukardt
2011-02-06 19:58 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-01-21 7:19 ` J-P. Rosen
2011-01-21 9:29 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-01-21 9:57 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-01-21 13:51 ` J-P. Rosen
2011-01-21 15:26 ` Fritz Wuehler
2011-01-21 19:50 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-02-05 12:40 ` Marco
2011-01-22 15:29 ` Lucretia
2011-01-21 7:11 ` J-P. Rosen
2011-01-21 4:33 ` Stephen Leake
2011-01-21 5:00 ` Shark8
2011-01-21 6:26 ` Thomas Løcke
2011-01-21 10:05 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-01-21 19:11 ` Oliver Kellogg
2011-01-21 19:42 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-01-21 20:41 ` Simon Wright
2011-01-21 22:14 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-01-22 15:28 ` Lucretia
2011-02-03 9:40 ` deadlyhead
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