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From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
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Subject: Re: How to get Ada to ?cross the chasm??
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"Mehdi Saada" <00120260a@gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:06afba26-ab67-4def-9320-c6b8fd851d6d@googlegroups.com...
> "I just want the ability to do the right thing for pretty much everyone 
> who programs." : Sure, but like Mr Jacob said, asking to use Windows 
> beforehand seems a bit contradictory...
> Instead of having to maintain multiple versions, is there a problem with 
> platforms like Mingw or cygwin/cygnal ?
> Or I should say "what is the problem", since you most likely thought of it 
> before.

We (RRS) started on CP/M and then MS-DOS. We did do a SCO Unix compiler 
decades ago, but we've never done any significant development on any Unix. 
So using a MingW would require throwing away almost all of our existing work 
(makes no sense).

The main reason we never supported Linux is simply lack of demand. I've been 
asked about it periodically, but never anywhere near as often as Windows 
versions. We're set up to support dozens of versions of things, just not 
using it right now. (That's why we'd always used a semi-custom version 
control; basic version control doesn't handle multiple versions of things 
managed in parallel at all.)

                                  Randy.