Re: KDevelop 3.0 released - was Ada popularity

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

Oliver Kellogg wrote:

> Martin Krischik <krischik@users.sourceforge.net> wrote in message
> news:<1672064.EiTi3y1jD6@linux1.krischik.com>...
>> 
>> Umbrello features an UML -> Ada code generator.
> 
> Further comment: I will add Ada code import soon, but in order
> to use it people will need to compile umbrello from CVS or wait
> for version 1.3 (which won't be released for quite a while.)
> I am looking for people to help out with integrating the parser
> and code generator for true round-trip engineering.

Well I would like to help. But why use a "parser" - don't we have ASIS?
Nothing is better at parsing Ada then the compiler itself.

For example: I use AdaDoc and AdaBrowse to generate documentation for AdaCL. 

AdaDoc uses a parser and the AdaCL makefile currently list 30 legal spec
files which AdaDoc can't parse and can't generate documentation for. Also
AdaDoc has problems with local packages.

On the other Hand AdaBrowse uses ASIS. AdaBrowse has no problem generating
documentation from these specs.

Do compare the follwing results:

http://adacl.sourceforge.net/AdaDoc/adacl-queue.html
http://adacl.sourceforge.net/AdaBrowse/adacl-queue.html

I wounder I we could get the delveloper of AdaBrowse to help with the
reverse engineering.

> Beware that the Ada support is really still in development, as
> can be seen in
> http://developer.kde.org/documentation/library/cvs-api/kdevelop/html/
> LangSupportStatus.html
> Also, the kdevelop team is looking for active contributors/
> maintainers of the AdaSupportPart:
> http://developer.kde.org/documentation/library/cvs-api/kdevelop/html
> unmaintained.html

Is there much work to do?

With Regards

Martin 

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