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,f78d2f93ab55fd75 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2000-09-12 16:13:03 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-02!sn-xit-03!supernews.com!europa.netcrusader.net!208.184.7.66!newsfeed.skycache.com!Cidera!news-x.support.nl!bullseye.news.demon.net!demon!news.demon.co.uk!demon!assen.demon.co.uk!not-for-mail From: john@assen.demon.co.uk.nospam (John McCabe) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada development environments Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 23:10:53 GMT Message-ID: <39beb659.17723416@news.demon.co.uk> References: <39BD1FB6.1684694D@trw.com> <39BD3696.797AFE23@west.raytheon.com> <8plrqi$2iv$1@nnrp1.deja.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: assen.demon.co.uk X-NNTP-Posting-Host: assen.demon.co.uk:158.152.218.101 X-Trace: news.demon.co.uk 968800348 nnrp-14:20918 NO-IDENT assen.demon.co.uk:158.152.218.101 X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.21/32.243 Xref: supernews.google.com comp.lang.ada:619 Date: 2000-09-12T23:10:53+00:00 List-Id: Ada2001 wrote: >In article <39BD3696.797AFE23@west.raytheon.com>, > Jerry Petrey wrote: >> >> >> Bruce Petrick wrote: >> > >> > Any truth to the rumors that Rational may stop supporting Apex? >> > >> > Does anyone know where to find a "current" list of vendors of >> > Ada95 development environments (for Sun Sparc)? >> >> I doubt it. They are introducing Apex 4.0 very shortly. I just >> attended >> a Rational web seminar where they showed their plans for the new 4.0 >> releases >> continuing into next year. Apex is one of their major products - I'm >> sure >> it will be around for quite some time. It is a pleasure to use, I >might >> add. >I agree that Apex on a Unix host is a *VERY* capable development >environment. I like it very much. However Rational's Apex for Windows >NT uses a very different Interactive Development Environment (IDE); it >seems to have been developed by a group that had never really used Apex >on Unix. Even the latest release (3.2.0b patch 2) is deficient in many >ways relative to Apex Unix. I hope the 4.0 release of Apex NT will be >better. In case anyone isn't aware, it would appear that Rational's Rose product (at least version 98i) for Unix (Solaris) actually uses a Windows subsystem emulator to produce a GUI that is pretty much identical to the NT version, so it would seem reasonable to assume that, for Rose at least, they will be using the NT version as a baseline. (Correct me if I'm wrong obviously :-) I wouldn't be at all surprised if that is the way they will be going with Apex. PS - If you get a new release of Apex, check out whether the bug related to the discriminant of a private extension is corrected: type X (Disc : ) is tagged record with : : end record; type Y (Disc : ) is new X (Disc) with private; (I think this is the basis of it) This is illegal but is compiled without error on (what I believe is) the current version of Apex. Unfortunately it is also a bug in Rose because Rose generates code that matches this :-( Best Regards John McCabe