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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,4cf50a6d88da66e0 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!feeder1-2.proxad.net!proxad.net!feeder2-2.proxad.net!news.clara.net!wagner.news.clara.net!pe1.news.blueyonder.co.uk!blueyonder!text.news.virginmedia.com!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: "Dr. Adrian Wrigley" Subject: Re: Ada in Debian: dropping support for the Distributed Systems Annex User-Agent: Pan/0.14.2.91 (As She Crawled Across the Table (Debian GNU/Linux)) Message-Id: Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 17:49:21 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 81.102.138.152 X-Complaints-To: http://netreport.virginmedia.com X-Trace: text.news.virginmedia.com 1217267361 81.102.138.152 (Mon, 28 Jul 2008 18:49:21 BST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 18:49:21 BST Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:1364 Date: 2008-07-28T17:49:21+00:00 List-Id: On Mon, 28 Jul 2008 08:38:56 +0200, xavier grave wrote: ... > As a consequence, I am sorry to announce that Debian 5.0 "Lenny", > scheduled for release in September 2008, will not support the > Distributed Systems Annex. > > I will continue working on PolyORB in Debian as my time allows. If you > think you can help, please do not hesitate to get in touch with me. The > packaging scripts are on Ada-France's public monotone server [4,5]. > Maybe one day I will be able to integrate a rock-solid PolyORB in some > future version of Debian. Thank you very much Xavier, Ludovic and others for your efforts on this! I use Annex E/GLADE heavily in my (unpublished) financial analysis/stock trading software. The early releases of the system worked OK once you knew of its limitations. I'm using GNAT GPL 2006 with GLADE, and that's OK too (but has "issues"). It's been fun and the tools have shown great promise. So I am disappointed that it's not become more popular and better supported. In these days of distributed systems and multicore processors, running complex applications, you'd think Annex E support would be universal. What's happening here? It doesn't seem to have been used in any major application (Air Traffic Control, Baggage Handling etc). Obviously ACT isn't recommending it, but why isn't there customer pull? >From my own perspective, it's not so critical, since what I have works, and I am moving on to new pastures now anyway. I had a look at PolyORB, but that seemed incomplete for DSA when I tried it. I'll test PolyORB again if I hear of progress with it, if time allows, but the "market" is telling us something : "we don't need or want Annex E" :( Thanks again guys for your heroic efforts. -- Dr. Adrian Wrigley, Cambridge, UK.