Re: Informal

["Ehud Lamm" <mslamm@mscc.huji.ac.il>]

Ted Dennison <dennison@telepath.com> wrote in message
news:ATQg7.10660$2u.75933@www.newsranger.com...
> In article <9m0jth$d6f$1@news.huji.ac.il>, Ehud Lamm says...
> >
> >What I had in mind is some radio button like box, which would simply
> >generate the GNAT command line options, which you currently specify in
the
> >options dialog.
>
> The GreenHills IDE does that. As an occasional user of that IDE, I'd
suggest you
> also try to place some kind of help information about those options
(tooltip
> help perhaps?) in that dialog. A big mess of checkboxes can be quite
daunting,
> particularly when you don't know what they all do. Its tempting to just
click
> them all, in hopes that will optimize best. :-)
>
> Note also that when you add in all the gcc and ld options (-cargs
, -largs), the
> complete list of options would make for a *huge* dialog (even if you try
tabbing
> it).
>


Remember that I am just talking about choosing installed libraries, and
adding the -l<lib name> switches. I didn't suggest, nor would I like a box
for choosing all options.
One thing that may be nice is choosing Debug and getting the -g switch. [But
this shoudln't be a part of the library choosing dialog, of course]

Ehud