Re: SAL, Auto_Text_IO release

M E Leypold <development-2006-8ecbb5cc8a-REMOVETHIS@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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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