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From: "Luke A. Guest" <laguest@archeia.com>
Subject: Re: Renaissance-Ada, a toolset for legacy Ada software, made open source
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2022 10:10:32 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <st0fe9$16a0$1@gioia.aioe.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 2a680ba5-deff-4473-840c-1db8e55d0957n@googlegroups.com

On 28/01/2022 02:23, Andreas ZEURCHER wrote:
> 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.


I kind of read is as, they made a toolset ages ago and have ported it to 
libadalang. But if it's new, why only support older Ada when you've 
based it on a newer Ada, especially a newer ada lib?

It's weird.

  reply	other threads:[~2022-01-28 10:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-01-27 12:32 Renaissance-Ada, a toolset for legacy Ada software, made open source Pierre van de Laar
2022-01-27 12:55 ` Luke A. Guest
2022-01-28  2:23   ` Andreas ZEURCHER
2022-01-28 10:10     ` Luke A. Guest [this message]
2022-01-28 11:42     ` Jesper Quorning
2022-01-28 12:31       ` Simon Wright
2022-01-28 13:58         ` Jeffrey R.Carter
2022-01-28 20:01     ` Stephen Leake
2022-01-28 10:27   ` Simon Wright
2022-01-29  9:26     ` G.B.
2022-01-29  9:49       ` AdaMagica
2022-01-29 18:35         ` G.B.
2022-01-29 19:43           ` Simon Wright
2022-01-30 16:16             ` AdaMagica
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