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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,5d819a12831be771 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: James E. Hopper Subject: Re: Building an Ada compiler Date: 1996/06/30 Message-ID: <4r6be5$p7r@eri2.erinet.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 162948267 distribution: world references: <4r0u04$21b0@sat.ipp-garching.mpg.de> content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 x-xxmessage-id: organization: Personal mime-version: 1.0 newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1996-06-30T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article Tucker Taft, stt@henning.camb.inmet.com writes: >Not everyone agrees with you, but as you say, they will have to put >their money or their time where there mouth is. Even using MPW >on the Mac is distasteful to many people. There really is no need >for a command-line interface if you start from scratch with an IDE >like CodeWarrior. However, it is different when you have an elaborate >system already built around make-like tools. Moving that to a >command-line-less environment can be painful. > Thats why i have been working on making the gcc tools have mac interefaces. One of the things i like about tenons environment is i can put mac OS interfaces and calls into unix tools. i am working on a nice mac style interface for gnat under machten that will eventually i hope look much like the codewarrior IDE. It won't be useful for building or maintaining gcc/gnat, but it should be a nice environment for developing ada code in if i get it right. If someone wants a different environment they are free to do their own versions of the IDE. i would submit that what people want is a better environment for gnat on mac, not a different compiler. To this end i will help anyone who wants to work on an IDE to fit the existing compiler into. this is a WHOLE lot less work than building a new compiler! jim