on reputation and lines and putting things places (Re: gcc branches?)

[Robert Dewar]

> That's pretty much what I'd guessed.  I'll reiterate: you go girl!
> That's cool.  I admire you.  Human scaled, competent, successful:
> neat!  Sheesh.  Are you just flipping out over my use of the word
> "dinky"?

No, it is just the entire style of your presentation.

> I've started to believe that there is no variation on advocacy that
> could possibly succeed given presumptions such as you have exhibited.
> It is interesting to try to trace those presumptions back to their
> origins (*cough*cygnus).  Yet another "bash on Tom" day, I guess.

I would tend to agree if it is you doing the advocacy. My best advice,
find someone who knows how to approach other people successfully.

> I don't know much at all about ACT

So I see :-)

> I'm "not talking to" ACT because, at your scale, my R&D funding needs
> are too big for you and not central enough to your mission.

Well how do you know? Given the previous quote?
In fact CM and revision control systems are quite critical to many of our
customers. We have several customers managing systems with tens of thousands
of files and millions of lines of code. Remember that the niche Ada occupies
is large scale mission critical systems.

Perhaps you are missing an opportunity here, though I must say the phrase
"my R&D" funding needs is worryingly personal, and as I said earlier, if
the intent of this thread was to encourage people to look at arch, it
has not worked with me.