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Subject: Re: Trouble with ASIS issues
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From: Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org>
Date: Sat, 06 Jun 2009 02:22:54 -0400
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"Hibou57 (Yannick Duch�ne)" <yannick_duchene@yahoo.fr> writes:

> Hi Stephen,
>
> On 5 juin, 14:57, Stephen Leake <stephen_le...@stephe-leake.org>
> wrote:
>> It is much better to use the ASIS code provided by your compiler
>> vendor.
> I'm not seeking for any vendor product, but only for the ASIS
> interface (package specifications), without obsoleted features and
> with conformance to Ada 2005.
>
>> Where are you getting these from?
> From ada-auth.org
>
>> Ask your vendor to include them in their next ASIS release.
> I'm not a client of any vendor. At the time, I'm just using either the
> GNAT GPL and the MinGW Ada (another version of GNAT).

So you are a non-paying client of AdaCore (or FSF); they are providing
the ASIS implementation you are using.

Changing the spec without making other corresponding changes can be
expected to break the tools.

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-- Stephe