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: 2001-07-14 00:07:23 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!195.21.255.252!unlisys!news.snafu.de!not-for-mail From: Michael Erdmann Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: An Ada IDE and discussions Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2001 09:08:14 +0200 Organization: [Posted via] Inter.net Germany GmbH Message-ID: <3B4FEFDE.10E7B423@snafu.de> References: <0zS27.187213$DG1.31590366@news1.rdc1.mi.home.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: ns10-n67-016.de.inter.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [de] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.16-22 i486) X-Accept-Language: en Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:9937 Date: 2001-07-14T09:08:14+02:00 List-Id: "chris.danx" schrieb: > That's not what Steve(?) said at all. "an IDE for Windows" is not saying all > users are Windows users, it's an IDE for Windows users. > > If ppl want Ada to become popular, you have to appeal to the biggest potential > user base, which is the Windows platform. However much some of you may dislike > the OS, it is the domininant OS and there is no denying it. You are right, but keep it potable between platforms e.g. GTK for Linux. > I'm doing this IDE because > > a) I (and others) need compiler configurability Why, most of the commercial compilers include an IDE. The times are long a go, that a compiler was just an CLI issue. Only the GNAT is not cleanly integrated into an IDE (except for GLIDE which i dont like) > b) It's an interesting problem comprising of many different > problems, algorithms and solutions > > c) It gives me experience with working on slightly > bigger apps and managing it all An IDE is a quite big application. Assume at least 2 ot 3 PY in average depending on the functionatlity. The effort will increase dramatically with the user configuration options. > d) It's a project I can do I you start such a project i like to work on this issue as well. Did you already thought about a home site for the project? May be sourceforge.net is a good location. > e) I'll learn from it. This is for sure. May be it should not be written in Ada at all, may be in Java? > f) It may do something for Ada* This is where i am not so sure, but i displike the environment which is currently available the the GNAT. Regards M.Erdmann