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From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
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Subject: Re: What's stopping you from using Ada for your next commercial
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Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2011 19:43:46 +0000
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Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de> writes:

> * Simon Wright:
>
>> I'm no longer in a position to look at supported versions, but I'm not
>> at all sure that Pro is that much better than GPL (treating it as just a
>> compiler and disregarding AdaCore's support offering, which is what
>> you're actually paying for). I certainly don't recognise Yannick's
>> remarks.
>
> And we should not forget that customer support often consists of
> finding a suitable workaround, not about fixing the underlying bug.
> To some degree, this is what customers want.  I suspect few shops are
> able to roll out a new GNAT version to all their developers and across
> their build infrastructure without much effort.

Indeed, this is exactly what we wanted. It would have been more fun to
roll out each new release and wavefront, but a stable environment is
much more important.

And, as someone else said, a new release brings new bugs.