Re: Meet the new GPS...same as the old GPS...

["ME" <abcdefg@nonodock.net>]

I downloaded an installed the latest version (windows) and for some reason 
it locked up on me while using it. I am running windows with all the latest 
service packs and updates.
<randomm@mindless.com> wrote in message 
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> Alex R. Mosteo wrote:
>> Randall Q. Huxley III wrote:
>> > Also as with the 2005 GPL version of GPS, I cannot get it to open
>> > documentation in my browser.  Whether I specify mozilla or not, it
>> > tries to use mozilla, but for some reason mozilla doesn't open.  When I
>> > open a terminal and issue "mozilla file:///path.to.document " as shown
>> > in the GPS messages, mozilla happily opens the document.  Has anyone
>> > got this to work?!
>>
>> Interestingly enough, this used to work for me with 2005 GAP until not 
>> long
>> ago (say two months?). Then it broke (without changing gps versions) as 
>> you
>> describe, and I don't know what caused the problem, but as it seems it
>> could be some external factor. It continues not working with 2006 GPL for
>> me, in ubuntu dapper.
>
> How did you set it up when it worked?  Did you not specify anything and
> allow it to default, or had you entered something in the browser box?
>
>>
>> > It's difficult indeed to imagine that anyone at Adacore has spent more
>> > than five minutes looking at GPS in the last two years...
>>
>> Certainly GPS lacks the polish of other IDEs, but is not that bad IMHO. 
>> I'm
>> however interested in the Eclipse plugins, alas they're not freely
>> available. I guess that the development of GPS started at a point where
>> there was no evident alternative; if it were today it seems more fruitful
>> to customize a established IDE (like eclipse) than reinventing the wheel. 
>> I
>> don't know however how much a problem could be to use eclipse in some of
>> the supported gnat platforms...
>
> I avoid Java like the plague that it is, so Eclipse for me is out of
> the question.  I'll be perfectly fine with Emacs if I can figure out
> how to use the Ada mode (actually Emacs comes with an Ada mode which
> seems to work pretty well, but I don't know what I'm missing from the
> one available from libre, and I don't know how to point it at the gnat
> from GPL, so I had to install gcc gnat in the normal locations to get
> Emacs to build anything).
>
> I think GPS is really dreadful.  I haven't seen anything as bad in
> years.  It's more like pre-alpha code.  If I were a paying customer I
> would be outraged.
>
> The main thing I'm hoping to gain from the IDE is build management for
> substantial projects.  If that's easily done in Emacs, I may forego GPS
> entirely.
>
> If some of the vendors would make it affordable for one-man development
> startups to buy their compiler and IDE, I wouldn't mind purchasing
> something.  I certainly can't spend thousands of rand at this point.
>
> Cheers,
> Rand
>