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,e7151167e0767ecc X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!postnews2.google.com!not-for-mail From: dan.r.mcleran@seagate.com (Dan McLeran) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Feasibility of using Ada in new development Date: 26 Aug 2004 12:31:38 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <19b0e504.0408261131.28e730bd@posting.google.com> References: <8429999a.0408231027.2850e800@posting.google.com> <6530a40c.0408240309.36f53e75@posting.google.com> <8429999a.0408241225.144c0066@posting.google.com> <19b0e504.0408251305.73ed26c8@posting.google.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 192.55.20.36 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1093548698 7693 127.0.0.1 (26 Aug 2004 19:31:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 19:31:38 +0000 (UTC) Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:3045 Date: 2004-08-26T12:31:38-07:00 List-Id: Georg Bauhaus wrote in message news:... > Dan McLeran wrote: > > : As far as Ada is concerned, I recently gave the GNAT Pro toolsuite a > : test drive for my own company's development needs and came away > : unimpressed. I think the Ada language is great, but these tools leave > : alot to be desired. Aonix makes an Ada plugin for Eclipse > > Have you had a chance to look at a more recent GPS? > I'm courious what you consider the big gap between it and, say, > Eclipse. > > -- Georg It was GPS 2.0.0. and GtkAda 2.0.0. Also note that I am running on Windows XP. Some of the ABCs of IDE I thought were missing: 1. No code completion help. Practically evey IDE on the planet has this (even the free AdaGIDE has it!). 2. The IDE would crash if I edited my source file outside of GPS. 3. The GPS project wizard would sometimes get jacked up when I tried to create a new project. No specifcs here but it was annoying. It only happened a couple of times and I don't know exactly what I did wrong. 4. The GtkAda GUI builder is unable to allow you to write in your event handler code and then re-generate the GUI. If you generate source code from the visual gui builder, and then fill in event handler code, the next time you re-gen the GUI, all of the files get overwritten. 5. The fact that the GUI builder was a separate application and not integrated into the IDE was hokey, IMO. 6. The GUI widgets weren't impressive. It looks like the GTK widgets take the lowest common denominator approach to multi-platform GUI toolkits. Contrast this with SWT for Java. 7. The help system would get screwed up as I tried scrolling thru it. I was actually surprised that it wasn't alot better, considering how much money ACT wants for supporting it.