Re: SAL, Auto_Text_IO release

[Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@acm.org>]

M E Leypold <development-2006-8ecbb5cc8a-REMOVETHIS@m-e-leypold.de> writes:

> Some of us are still stuck with 3.15p. We can't GPL our customers code
> and being so small we can't pay the ACT support. 

How small can you be to not afford $15k/year? I've never worked for a
small company (I work for the US government), so I have no experience
with this. But it seems to me that if you are paying two people's
salary, then you aught to be able to afford 15k for a very important
tool. 

> So we use 3.15p. We cannot use Ada 2005. We are stuck. "This will
> take longer" we say to our customers. "We don't have 'not null'".
> "This will not look like OO, this must be Ada 95". And our projects
> are riddled with old bugs of 3.15p and ICEs and everything takes a
> million years and all our programs crash. We all die. Oh the
> embarrasment.

I see the implied smiley, but all that could be cured for $15k. Well
worth it!

> Would you, in the light of that situation perhaps, I ask humbly,
> consider, to also link the old versions (the last with 3.15p-Support)?

I'm not sure what you mean by "link".

If you mean "keep the .tar.gz files on your website", I suppose I
could. But that implies some level of support, which I don't want to
do. It's just as easy for you to keep those files on your machine.

If you _didn't_ keep a copy, then you need to seriously reconsider
your backup plan!

Having said all that, what are you using SAL for? I never hear from
users.

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-- Stephe