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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
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Subject: Re: GPS issues: laundry list
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2012 14:41:39 +0200
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On Thu, 13 Sep 2012 02:46:05 -0700 (PDT), Marius Amado-Alves wrote:

> "For large projects, nothing helps. No idea how to improve that."
> 
> Dmitry, you've just created an immortal quote!

(:-))

> Gnatmake was such a beautiful tool, everything was clear at last, then
> suddenly we're back to the black arts age,

Hmm, gprmake is still there:

   gnatmake -Pproject_file

You are not forced to use gprbuild instead, unless you wanted some C/C++
sources in the project. Or, what did you mean?

> So I am "forced" to use GPS. (I'd rather use Notepad++. I hate visual
> "studios".

If you close all GPS windows but the source code window, that will be
exactly the Notepad++'s look-and-feel.

> So I'm learning the "GPS way". Trying to understand the "Project
> properties" thing.

The only thing to understand about it is that you should never ever click
it! Project file is a plain text file in an Ada-like language.

> Find it extremely awkward, confusing. A simple thing
> like putting a source file in a project is ludricously hard.

It is as simple as saving a file. E.g. take an existing project file, then
File -> Save As. That is it!

(you should have

   for Source_Dirs use (directories list);

in the project file. Whatever sources you put in any of the directories,
they go to the project. GPS notices when you save a new Ada file there and
adds it to the project view automatically. The best thing about it is that
doing so, it does not touch the gpr-file.)

-- 
Regards,
Dmitry A. Kazakov
http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de