Re: Web-enabling Ada with AWS, Mon 11 Apr 2005 20:00, Ada-Belgium

["Alex R. Mosteo" <devnull@mailinator.com>]

Jeff C wrote:
> Alex R. Mosteo wrote:
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>> Jeff C wrote:
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>>> Alex R. Mosteo wrote:
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>>>> Dirk Craeynest wrote:
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>>>>> 20:00-20:15 - Eclipse plug-in for Ada (ObjectAda or GNAT)
>>>>> ---------------------------------------------------------
>>>>> Speaker
>>>>> Patricia Langle, Aonix France
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>>>> I keep hearing about this Eclipse IDE. They chant excellences, at 
>>>> least for its original Java usage. Does anyone know what would be 
>>>> the extent of such a plug-in? Could it eventually be an alternative 
>>>> to GPS?
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>>>> Kind regards,
>>>>
>>>> Alex.
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>>> I know several developers that love it for Java and C++. Several 
>>> vendors are also embracing it as the base framework for hosting their 
>>> tools (e.g. Wind River's new tool suite is eclipse based).
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>>> It clearly is an alternative to GPS (not saying it is a better or 
>>> worse alternative...but it is one). It does not "appear" to be open 
>>> source. It certainly is not freely downloadable last time I checked.
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>> This has changed or something (I had the idea it has always been open 
>> source), since I already downloaded and installed it some time ago, 
>> but then I never did any development with it. I've just launched it 
>> off and there's no restrictions apparently.
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> Eclipse is open source but a plug-in is needed for each new language. 
> There is a "Free" C++ plugin. Aonix has written an Ada one but it does 
> not (appear) to be freely available. Note that a full Eclipse language 
> plug in is non trivial because it is capable of doing more than just an 
> editor that calls a compiler.
> 
> So are you saying you have previously downloaded the Aonix Ada Eclipse 
> plugin or  just Exclipse in general?

Eclipse in general, sorry for the ambiguity. I thought all the time you 
was talking about eclipse the framework and not the Ada plugin.

My interest in any Ada plugin for eclipse is effectively because the 
non-triviality you mention. Since eclipse can do so many things, it's 
apparent that the plugin needs to be quite a beast.