Re: Meet the new GPS...same as the old GPS...

[Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>]

Stephen Leake <Stephe.Leake@nasa.gov> writes:
> Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org> writes:
>> It's at http://www.ada-france.org/debian/adamode-4.0.tar.gz
>>
>> The version number, 4.0, is my own invention.  I figured that a new
>> major version was justified by the dropping of .adp files, which
>> changes the external interface in an incompatible way.
>>
>> Please, let's avoid a fork if possible.  Let's propose the changes
>> upstream, i.e. to the emacs development team at
>> http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs.
>>
>> I don't have time for that right now, and it is not my priority, so
>> please seomebody take the lead.
>
> That would be me, I think, since I've volunteered to be the Emacs Ada
> mode maintainer.

Great.  You are anointed from now on :-)

> I've thought about using .gpr directly before. Does your lisp code
> handle 'with foo;'? that seemed like the hard part, especially if you
> want to use the "project editor mode"; the lisp code has to keep track
> of where each bit of the path came from.

No, unfortunately.  It only knows about the source directories that
are directly in the .gpr file, and there is even a bug that is
triggered when there are comments inside the parentheses in "for
Source_Dirs use (...)".  I haven't had time to fix it yet.

> As far as I'm concerned, we can ditch the fancy project editor, and
> just edit project files directly.

Yes, I did remove the project editor, as I write my .gpr files
manually.  I updated ada-mode to recognise "project" as a keyword :)

> Hmm. I've downloaded the code, and 'ada-prj.el' appears to still deal
> with .adp files.

What it does is read the .gpr file and fill in the same in-memory data
structures as the old .adp parser.

> There is some mention of "gpr-mode" in ada-mode.el. 

Yes, that's the mode that recognises the "project" keyword.

> I don't have time right now to go thru all the diffs.

OK.

-- 
Ludovic Brenta.