From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.6 (2021-04-09) on ip-172-31-74-118.ec2.internal X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.6 Path: eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!aioe.org!6MpDoNrA+2KoZyE4OD7oYg.user.46.165.242.75.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Stephen Leake Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Renaissance-Ada, a toolset for legacy Ada software, made open source Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2022 12:01:17 -0800 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <86ee4rtysy.fsf@stephe-leake.org> References: <7a2f8e84-f7ab-4322-9a8d-9c5da6004d43n@googlegroups.com> <2a680ba5-deff-4473-840c-1db8e55d0957n@googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: gioia.aioe.org; logging-data="23529"; posting-host="6MpDoNrA+2KoZyE4OD7oYg.user.gioia.aioe.org"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@aioe.org"; User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (windows-nt) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.9.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:i4LoLnV0QNNkoGVXxEPuN4841AQ= Xref: reader02.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:63415 List-Id: Andreas ZEURCHER writes: > On Thursday, January 27, 2022 at 6:55:11 AM UTC-6, Luke A. Guest wrote: >> On 27/01/2022 12:32, Pierre van de Laar wrote: >> > Dear Members of comp.lang.ada, >> > >> > We would like to inform you that we have made Renaissance-Ada, a >> > toolset for legacy Ada software, open source: >> > https://github.com/TNO/Renaissance-Ada >> > >> What does "for legacy Ada software" mean? > I would suspect that “for legacy Ada software” might be a euphemistic > way of saying: doesn't support modern Ada after either Ada83 or Ada95. Except that it's based on libadalang, which supports Ada 2022, as well as previous versions. So I'm guess "legacy" refers to wanting/needing to adapt old Ada code to a new compiler and/or environement, requirements, etc. Tools for automatic rewrite would be handy for that. They could easily leave out "legacy" - rewriting cann be useful for recent code as well. But maybe their marketing department thinks there's a niche that they can more easily sell to? -- -- Stephe