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-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,be23df8e7e275d73 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-07-13 05:49:59 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!193.174.75.178!news-fra1.dfn.de!news0.de.colt.net!colt.net!newspeer.clara.net!news.clara.net!news5-gui.server.ntli.net!ntli.net!news6-win.server.ntlworld.com.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "chris.danx" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada References: <0zS27.187213$DG1.31590366@news1.rdc1.mi.home.com> Subject: Re: "is ada dead?" A challenge for all of us? MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Message-ID: <23C37.25392$WS4.3875364@news6-win.server.ntlworld.com> Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2001 13:46:06 +0100 NNTP-Posting-Host: 213.104.128.8 X-Complaints-To: abuse@ntlworld.com X-Trace: news6-win.server.ntlworld.com 995028286 213.104.128.8 (Fri, 13 Jul 2001 13:44:46 BST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2001 13:44:46 BST Organization: ntlworld News Service Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:9907 Date: 2001-07-13T13:46:06+01:00 List-Id: > I would find an interface similar to Forte to be appealing. What's Forte when it's at home? Is it free? I ask since it's important to explore various IDEs and see what features work and what are useless. However, my requirements are going to be different from other ppl's and this is going cooperation from ppl to get right. I've been working on a small prototype that is specifically designed to play with compiler invocation and configuration. It should be at the release stage in a few days, and I would hope ppl will take a peek at it and help me get the compiler configuration interface into a usuable state. It's not meant to be used for serious work and isn't to be considered serious at all (it's a toy designed to get opinions from folk). { it uses gwindows 0.3 how stable is gwindows? I mean, how much of it is likely to change and become incompatible in the future? Should i stick with 0.3 or go for the pre-beta release (I don't imagine there will be much difference _once I get it compiled_, and it won't impact on the program at all) } > However, a > couple important features would be extensive hotkey support (aka LyX), Lyx? Extensive hotkey support like reconfiguring hotkeys? > and customization of the look and feel. It is important to account for different tastes (may increase productivity), however the level of customisation shouldn't be too great (or useless). > I'm pretty open on what and how > many features it contains, as long as each "feature" has a real reason for > being there. Oh yes, no point going down the _feature bloat_ route. Another point on "features" is not to ram them down the developers throat. I get annoyed with some IDEs that make you use a project to compile toy programs. Anyone else get annoyed at this? > It obviously should have plugins for working with an external > debugger(GVD anyone?), and the LRM and Annexes in a Help dialogue that's > easy to get to. I'd really like to have plugins but I don't have a clue how to do this, anyone know a good introduction to plugin-ability on the windows platform? Chris