Re: ADTS V6R1 - No SEU updates?

[Jon Paris <Jon.Paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 14-Feb-08, at 11:39 AM, wdsci-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> Be careful defining the term "Stabilized, Jon.  George specifically
> called WDSC "stabilized", and by that he meant no changes whatsoever
> other than bug fixes.

I was being careful Joe - the normal meaning of stabilized in IBM is  
fixes only - possibly more careful than George was <grin>.  When a  
fundamental change is made (e.g. the addition of a new data type to  
DDS or a change in language syntax) then stabilized tools either have  
to offer a low-level accommodation of the change (as will happen when  
new data types are introduced) or reject it in an organized way.   
With SEU they have followed normal policy and updated the syntax  
checker.  With WDSC they have not.  Two tools - same status -  
different approach.

Don't get me wrong - I'm very much in favor of everybody switching to  
RDi - the tools have to make money if we are to see progress.  But  
enabling SEU and not WDSC in my opinion was a poor choice.  To enable  
WDSC to use the RDi syntax checker/verifier should have been a  
trivial task the two tools are fundamentally the same. Updating it  
for SEU was almost certainly a lot more more work.

If RDi was a no-charge option this would not be an issue - but since  
it has a charge people have to have time to budget for that.  If I  
have updated my compilers and everything else to V6 then I should be  
able to use it.  It makes no sense to support it in a 20 year old  
tool and not in a 5 year old tool - particularly when the two tools  
are so closely aligned.


Jon Paris

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