Re: GNATBench : how can I install ?

[Britt Snodgrass <britt.snodgrass@gmail.com>]

On Nov 5, 12:34 am, Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
<yannick_duch...@yahoo.fr> wrote:
>
> > A minimal GPS is not strictly required, but if there is none, you will  
> > have to edit GPR files manually. I've noticed it has automatically  
> > created a big gnatbench.dll in a subdirectory of OSGI (which is in  
> > “.configuration”).
>
> Strange : if you do, on an Ada project, a right-click, then “GNAT Project”  
> then “Edit Properties”, it invoks the old dialog box from GPS. But you may  
> also right-click on a GPR file, then you will have two options : “Open  
> with -> GNAT Project File Editor” or “Open with -> GNAT Project File  
> Extended Editor”. Three different ways to edit a same file. The Extended  
> one seems a work on progress.
>

I much prefer to edit GPR files manually with the GNATbench text
editor because its easier to keep the GPR files neat, commented, and
optimally structured.  The project file editing GUI works but it can
restructure the GPR file in ugly ways when it saves the file.  It will
often introduce unneeded case statements in every GPR package when the
project uses scenario variables.  So I only use the project editor GUI
to help discover compiler and tool switches, then I close the GUI
without saving and proceed to edit the file manually.