Re: Eclipse & gnatbench

["Alex R. Mosteo" <devnull@mailinator.com>]

Eric Hughes wrote:

> On Mar 6, 9:56 am, "Alex R. Mosteo" <devn...@mailinator.com> wrote:
>> I'm trying to evaluate gnatbench and I'm failing miserably. I have a stock
>> Eclipse Classic 3.3.2 freshly installed and gnat GPL 2007 installed and well
>> tested.
> 
> Gnatbench requires that CDT be installed prior.  That tidbit was in
> one of the few bits of documentation I read about it.  Not a problem
> for me, as I already had it in place.

Oookay, thanks. Then I see in the eclipse comparison page that a good starting
point is the C/C++ one (more so since my projects are multilanguage).

>> Gnatbench comes without any documentation I could find. Has anyone here
>> tried it? Care to share some pointers?
> 
> Installation worked fine for me.  I'm not using it because,
> apparently, it has no way of dealing with alternate source naming
> conventions.  I don't use GNAT's default ".ads" and ".adb"; I can't
> discriminate between them quick enough on the screen.  If you're not
> customizing your environment that way, perhaps it will work for you.

I use stock gnat naming, so I don't expect to have a problem with this. I
though you could specify alternate naming conventions in your project files?