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,d581a4c04b0d7daf X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news4.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!atl-c08.usenetserver.com!news.usenetserver.com!pc03.usenetserver.com!news.flashnewsgroups.com-b7.4zTQh5tI3A!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: SAL, Auto_Text_IO release References: From: Stephen Leake Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2006 20:46:43 -0400 Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) Emacs/21.3 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:SgSzuAXznBX3POQmG5w8dkUMjrs= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: abuse@flashnewsgroups.com Organization: FlashNewsgroups.com X-Trace: 5d92344989701e73ae4a426827 Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:4861 Date: 2006-06-20T20:46:43-04:00 List-Id: M E Leypold 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. -- -- Stephe