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,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,392138c66df99a66 X-Google-Thread: 107e1d,392138c66df99a66 X-Google-Thread: fcea4,392138c66df99a66 X-Google-Thread: 107324,392138c66df99a66 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,gid107e1d,gidfcea4,gid107324,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!news.glorb.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: "Alex R. Mosteo" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,fr.comp.lang.ada,be.comp.programming,nl.comp.programmeren Subject: Re: Web-enabling Ada with AWS, Mon 11 Apr 2005 20:00, Ada-Belgium Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 11:51:22 +0200 Message-ID: <4249251A.6050705@mailinator.com> References: <424008EA.8020505@mailinator.com> <42402C19.9010704@mailinator.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net Yrg6ycpVMuLlQux/fDtvhQ94swG4bAlvbTahrNATiKVSxrDgM= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:10111 fr.comp.lang.ada:940 be.comp.programming:1554 nl.comp.programmeren:6178 Date: 2005-03-29T11:51:22+02:00 List-Id: Jeff C wrote: > Alex R. Mosteo wrote: > >> Jeff C wrote: >> >>> Alex R. Mosteo wrote: >>> >>>> Dirk Craeynest wrote: >>>> >>>>> 20:00-20:15 - Eclipse plug-in for Ada (ObjectAda or GNAT) >>>>> --------------------------------------------------------- >>>>> Speaker >>>>> Patricia Langle, Aonix France >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> 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? >>>> >>>> Kind regards, >>>> >>>> Alex. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> 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). >>> >>> 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. >> >> >> >> 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. >> > > 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.