From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,c15063243269efcd X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news3.google.com!news.glorb.com!newsgate.cistron.nl!xs4all!amsnews11.chello.com!feeder1.cambrium.nl!feed.tweaknews.nl!138.199.65.86.MISMATCH!sn-xt-ams-06!sn-xt-ams-04!sn-post-ams-02!sn-post-sjc-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail From: "ME" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Meet the new GPS...same as the old GPS... Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 23:54:33 -0700 Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com Message-ID: <12a1lhf6v7hkgb1@corp.supernews.com> References: <1151320748.360707.79490@u72g2000cwu.googlegroups.com> <4gag1vF1lgt2gU1@individual.net> <1151343516.598780.72970@m73g2000cwd.googlegroups.com> X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2869 X-RFC2646: Format=Flowed; Original X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2869 X-Complaints-To: abuse@supernews.com Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:5050 Date: 2006-06-26T23:54:33-07:00 List-Id: 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. wrote in message news:1151343516.598780.72970@m73g2000cwd.googlegroups.com... > X-No-Archive: Yes > > 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 >