Re: Renaissance-Ada, a toolset for legacy Ada software, made open source

["G.B." <bauhaus@notmyhomepage.invalid>]

On 28.01.22 11:27, Simon Wright wrote:
> 
>>> https://github.com/TNO/Renaissance-Ada
>>>
>>
>> What does "for legacy Ada software" mean?
> 
> Looking at the link, it seems that it's software that has been just
> growing, to the point at which it's becoming unmaintainable. I don't see
> anything that says Ada83 (though software with that sort of problem is
> likely to have been around for a long time).

The presentation seems to be openly addressing "legacy / technical debt".
Referring to an large code base.

The README in, e.g.,  Dependency_Graph_Extractor lists some
contemporary Versions of compiler and tools.

Speculating, an ever more complex and changing language requires
efforts becoming correspondingly more complex and changing.
I understand that recent GNATs have dropped some support for less
recent editions of the Ada language.

Anyway, if Renaissance-Ada extracts information about programs, it adds clarity.
That seems helpful, as it saves time and money - if that's what you
want to achieve.