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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,d275ffeffdf83655 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: John McCabe Subject: Re: Ada mode requests (Re: Ada vs C++ vs Java) Date: 1999/01/29 Message-ID: <36B2381E.70A@gecm.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 438344117 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <369C1F31.AE5AF7EF@concentric.net> <369DDDC3.FDE09999@sea.ericsson.se> <369e309a.32671759@news.demon.co.uk> <369F1D39.64A65BC1@sea.ericsson.se> <369f81a9.31040093@news.demon.co.uk> <77ommt$9bo$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <77vhjf$nn9$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <77vld9$qvg$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <782rp0$kn6$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <6Oap2.16170$MW1.4028@news2.giganews.com> <783nnb$s9c@drn.newsguy.com> <784qvi$a0a$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <78549k$iqv$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <785fo3$thj$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <36A6F997.CA210C39@easystreet.com> <36A775B3.666042D8@easystreet.com> <788svu$gl9@drn.newsguy.com> <78a27f$rp4$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <78age5$p8v@hobbes.crc.com> <78g0vt$8td$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <36B0FEF4.381F@gecm.com> <78scig$dbf$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Organization: Waterlooville Mime-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-01-29T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: dewar@gnat.com wrote: > In article <36B0FEF4.381F@gecm.com>, > John McCabe wrote: > > > ACT spends considerable resources on updating and > > > improving > > > Ada mode, since EMACS is at the center of one of our > > > integrated development environments, so it is most > > > certainly worth sending suggestions to us. > > Well it's a pity you didn't start off with the latest > > version of ada-mode before modifying it to produce the > > 3.1 version on the cs.nyu.edu site. > Remember that the sources for 3.11 were frozen a while ago > (a couple of months), so you are not seeing an up to date > snap shot here! Granted, but even then V2.28 had been available from the ada-mode mailing list for quite a loong time. > But in any case, I would think that emacs > stuff of this kind should be VERY amenable to the > let-the-world-play-and-improve mode of open source software > front end), so we welcome any improvements etc, and we will > be happy to post any new versions at the cs.nyu.edu site. > In fact I think Marcus Kuhn will be organizing this kind of > activity around the Linux port, and this is exactly the > sort of area where we should see that the community can do > a better job than any one person :-) I think we need to make sure we know who is going to be maintaining ada-mode then. Rolf Ebert did a brilliant job of it, but won't be doing it any longer. Latest news on this group was that Matt Heaney would be doing it. I heard this only a day or two after I had contacted Rolf to find out what was happening with ada-mode, and he said he was still looking for someone to take over maintenance. So if anyone out there knows and definitive detail, let us know. You could start off by posting to ada-mode@email.enst.fr. > The really important new functionality is the connection to > the new cross-referencing information in the ali file. Even > that is fairly straightforward, since the ali formats are > well documented (see the file lib-writ.adb). I was using ada-xref.el a couple of years ago with Emacs 19.34 and GNAT 3.05. > At ACT, our work on the EMACS Ada mode is focussed on what > our own internal EMACS users want and what our customers > want, but this is very definitely an area where lots of > people have lots of useful ideas, and where lots of people > know enough technically about how things are done to > contribute. I am glad you look at it that way and I will be happy to help with comments, suggestions and bugfixes, especially at the moment until we can sort out some method of merging the work that Rolf Ebert put in after V2.27, the work you are doing, as well as the adjustments, fixes and additions that I and many other ada-mode users have put into their own versions. Best Regards John