Re: [Announcement] New Project: ASIS for GNAT

[Martin Krischik <krischik@users.sourceforge.net>]

Arnaud Charlet wrote:

>> ACT did not answer my e-Mail.
 
> FWIW, I haven't seen your email.

It went to libre - where I got the original sources from.

> Note that having a reliable ASIS working with a particular GNAT version
> is a lot of work, and certainly much more than just putting some sources
> together as you described, since there's a very close relationship
> between the GNAT and ASIS data structures.

True, but the ASIS and GNAT parts are seperated inside two directrorys:
"./asis/" and "./gnat/". They comunicate via the specs - as it should be.

It is not that diffcult to replace the "./gnat/" sources with a more current
one. The resulting ASIS uses then the correct data structures and works
with adabrowse which is the most complex asis application I know.

> I'm afraid your resulting
> source package will suffer from the same trouble gcc 3.3 did: frozen Ada
> sources with a moving (incompatible) GCC back-end that compiles but is
> pretty unreliable.

As I said on the project web side: any resulting ASIS will only work
reliable with the GNAT from which it got its "./gnat/" sources.

> Same comment for glade btw: the glade run time is tightly coupled with the
> corresponding GNAT run time.

Which proves Ludovic and my poing: both sources should be moved into gcc
tree from where they can draw the current gnat sources all the time.

We don't know why ACT did not do so. We can only guess it was either because
of restricted resources or for comertial interest. Both of which are fair
enough - ACT is a comertial company after all.

The only thing I found sad was that libre.act-europe.fr:/anoncvs did not
have a asis or glade directory.

With Regards

Martin

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