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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,5355e4a180d9f6be X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,UTF8 Path: g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: "Alex R. Mosteo" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Eclipse & gnatbench Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2008 11:55:09 +0100 Message-ID: <63cl8jF262riuU2@mid.individual.net> References: <63am2uF26pon2U1@mid.individual.net> <6e28be91-ae4a-4ff2-8c2f-0b862452fc3e@p73g2000hsd.googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8Bit X-Trace: individual.net Z7xF8bomutJ6OLxNHbHIpgx83Vt+AFB9VJHZo6J0zjfr4djrA= Cancel-Lock: sha1:krVLx/uKTqBN8KdkEjjvcHiwPwQ= User-Agent: KNode/0.10.5 Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:20220 Date: 2008-03-07T11:55:09+01:00 List-Id: Britt Snodgrass wrote: > On Mar 6, 12:10 pm, Eric Hughes wrote: >> On Mar 6, 9:56 am, "Alex R. Mosteo" 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.