Common Configuration Settings (was: Ada for 1st year students)

[Georg Bauhaus <rm.dash-bauhaus@futureapps.de>]

christoph.grein schrieb:

> Alas, Ada stopped at the code level, the APSE idea (the standard for
> the development environment) did not get anywhere (wasn't it the
> woodenman document?).
> 
> And I gather GNAT project files were introduced exactly because using
> hundreds of -I switches was felt inconvenient, to say the least.

How about a set of rules covering common settings
for configuration management in a compiler independent
fashion?

For example, the set could cover the Cartesian product of
the usual suspects, such as directories to be included,
the target platform, debugging, assertions and checks, ...
Once a few basic rules are there, it should be easy to

(a) transform the rules into compiler specific syntax

(b) have rule transformation use host OS conventions

(c) allow for compiler specific additions


We would not have to learn yet another ad hoc language.