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From: Robert Dewar <dewar@gnat.com>
Subject: Re: Help help.. please.i am totaly new in ada programing
Date: 1999/11/03
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In article <1999Nov3.081300.1@eisner>,
  Kilgallen@eisner.decus.org.nospam wrote:

>(unlike ACT I presume, given the strong
> emphasis on platform portability) _could_ build a highly
> useful tool. But like many things in software, there is a
> question of how many are interested.

Well I am under the impression that you are not an ACT customer,
so perhaps you should not presume :-)

In fact we are very much committed to an easy to use *portable*
GUI-based integrated development environment. Portable here is
an interesting concept, because what you want is functional
portability but not necessarily look-and-feel identical
behavior. Indeed different people have different requirements
here. FOr example, on NT, we have found it useful to provide
two differnt flavors, one looks just like a typical Unix X-based
GUI environment, the other looks more like a standard NT
environment. One would want to do the same on a MAC if anyone
were willing to fund such a project (as I mentioned in a
previous post, the AJPO *was* committed to fund such a
development, but then reneged after contract selection).

Of course in either case, the environment needs to be able to
handle the needs of projects that depend on configuration
scripts etc in conjunction with the graphical environment. For
example, the GNAT project file is used to achieve some of the
required control.

Robert Dewar
Ada Core Technologies


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