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-Thread: a07f3367d7,887292c91e10d3fd
X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,public,usenet
X-Google-NewGroupId: yes
X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit
Path: 
 g2news2.google.com!postnews.google.com!p7g2000prb.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail
From: AdaMagica <christoph.grein@eurocopter.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: Ada documentation tools.
Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2010 04:38:17 -0800 (PST)
Organization: http://groups.google.com
Message-ID: <45458390-1074-4299-8faf-624bfda6db51@p7g2000prb.googlegroups.com>
References: <s5adnQTW9suR_33RRVn_vwA@giganews.com>
 <c2c16ca4-9833-4947-a549-6de773ef78dc@35g2000prb.googlegroups.com>
 <J7ednXkvmrCogXzR4p2dnAA@giganews.com>
NNTP-Posting-Host: 80.156.44.178
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
X-Trace: posting.google.com 1289824697 1573 127.0.0.1 (15 Nov 2010 12:38:17
 GMT)
X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com
NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2010 12:38:17 +0000 (UTC)
Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com
Injection-Info: p7g2000prb.googlegroups.com; posting-host=80.156.44.178;
 posting-account=rmHyLAoAAADSQmMWJF0a_815Fdd96RDf
User-Agent: G2/1.0
X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2; de; rv:1.9.0.4)
 Gecko/2008102920 Firefox/3.0.4,gzip(gfe)
Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:16475
Date: 2010-11-15T04:38:17-08:00
List-Id: <comp.lang.ada>

On 15 Nov., 12:40, "Peter C. Chapin" <pcc482...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2010-11-15 03:14, AdaMagica wrote:
>
> > So what do you expect from such a tool that the Ada spec does not yet
> > provide?
>
> Mainly I want cross-referenced documentation that is easy to browse. I
> realize that IDEs can provide much of this support but I like having
> documentation that can be read without the help of a specific IDE (for
> example, in any web browser).
>
> Peter

Cross-referencing can best be done via the internal program
representation (ASIS e.g.). Why is a browser to be preferred to an IDE
like GPS? OK, you can use it without a compiler being present. This
seems like a weak reason. Modern software needs the appropriate tools
to read, and for source code, this is the compiler. Would you try to
browse through a HOOD design or UML model created with some tool with
a browser instead of a dedicated tool?