Re: Eclipse & gnatbench

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

Britt Snodgrass wrote:

> On Mar 6, 12:10 pm, Eric Hughes <eric....@gmail.com> 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.
>>
>> > 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.
>>
>> Eric
> 
> I have the newly released 2.1.0 version at work. Its very good. It
> handles the Apex naming convention (i.e., *.1.ada & *.2.ada) just fine
> if the GNATbench project's .gpr file specifies it *and* if the
> internal Eclipse file association preferences are updated to associate
> the .ada extension with the GNATbench Ada editor (in addition to .ads
> and .adb).
> 
> Documentation is installed along with the plug-in and is available via
> Eclipse's Help -> help Contents menu.

Thanks, Britt. Incidentally, have you used GPS? If so, which one do you prefer?
I'm a long-time GPS user but have never grown totally comfortable to it.