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Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 09:49:18 +0200
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RasikaSrinivasan@gmail.com a �crit :
> A pertinent question might be - will the gnat Project support with gpr
> files not serve the function. Perhaps ada based distributions should
> use that instead of the traditional config etc.

Project files are for building. That's only part of a project. You need 
to create distrib tarball, launch the tests, install files, build and 
install documentation... All this is better handled by makefile. I also 
found the makefile good as it contains the extact command to launch for 
building, installing...

Even for building I prefer:

    $ make

Than to have to remember the actual command line to use:

    $ gnat make -XLIBRARY_TYPE=static -XBUILD=Debug -P my_project

Pascal.

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