Re: ada-mode and GNAT project files (was: GVD)

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Hi there,

A quick update on the status of ada-mode:
AdaCore is no longer actively working on developing ada-mode, although
we are still fixing bugs in it (in particular to keep it up-to-date with
regards to the cross-references generated by GNAT in the ALI files).

I'll try and take the time to contribute the latest version to FSF for
inclusing in Emacs (I am still the official ada-mode maintainer for
Emacs, although I would gladly give over that job if someone else is
motivated -- I no longer use Emacs myself, and feel like I might be
restraining the development of ada-mode).

As far as I know, the FSF version should contain almost the latest
version. In any case, the version released with later versions of GNAT
(or Glide, as our package is called) are the latest, and what I will
contribute to the FSF, so I would encourage you to start from there).

By any means keep using the ada-mode name in Emacs, no need to fork
here. This is a win-win situation potentially (AdaCore will contribute
now and then some patches, and benefit from the patches you might make).

With regards to supporting the .gpr files: Glide contains a small Ada
binary that parses the GPR file, and outputs a temporary .adp file that
Emacs reads on the fly to get the list of source dirs and object dirs.
This is certainly the most efficient way to do, since parsing the .gpr
files is a complex task, that I doubt your parser fully does (there are
lots of features in there). It is better to reuse the same parser that
GNAT itself uses.

regards,
Emmanuel