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=0.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC 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: lga@unconfigured.xvnews.domain (Laurent Gasser) Subject: Re: Building an Ada compiler Date: 1996/07/01 Message-ID: <4r8nulINNkd6@maz4.sma.ch>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 163100830 distribution: world references: <4r4idi$egp@eri1.erinet.com> organization: The unconfigured xvnews people reply-to: lga@unconfigured.xvnews.domain newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1996-07-01T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <4r4idi$egp@eri1.erinet.com>, James E. Hopper writes: > I know how to use machten to build a stand alone gcc that can work > with other IDE's like the GW AdaED environment or perhaps as a plug in > to metrowerks but this gnat would not be able to build itself without > much more work than i feel like throwing at it. but unless someone > feels like funding this i am going to concentrate on making the > Machten compile and tools as good as they can be. i see issues like > moving it to another IDE as distractions of the fundamental issue of > providing a useful compiler. > > I would also point out that a couple of Ada vendor who i have haunted > over the last few years to do a mac port of their commercial compilers > told me they are watching the machten port to see how many people use > it as a gauge of the interest in Ada in the mac world. > > jim I see the effort made by your team as the most important: having a working Ada95 compiler generating executable on Mac. Improving the usability can be done by users later on. I am trying to suggest to my co-workers how good it could be to work with Ada. And some have already listened to me :-) On the note of IDE, maybe we could get rid of having a CLI by using the scripting facilities (Apple Events) of MacOS. So the compiler would be a faceless background application receiving line commands and translating the code in the background. But once more, your work clearly has a higher priority. Where and when could we know more about Tenon's GNAT product? -- Laurent Gasser (lga@sma.ch) Computers do not solve problems, they execute solutions.