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: 103376,392138c66df99a66 X-Google-Thread: 107e1d,392138c66df99a66 X-Google-Thread: fcea4,392138c66df99a66 X-Google-Thread: 107324,392138c66df99a66 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,gid107e1d,gidfcea4,gid107324,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!news.glorb.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local01.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.comcast.com!news.comcast.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 18:17:19 -0600 Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 19:17:18 -0500 From: Jeff C User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,fr.comp.lang.ada,be.comp.programming,nl.comp.programmeren Subject: Re: Web-enabling Ada with AWS, Mon 11 Apr 2005 20:00, Ada-Belgium References: <424008EA.8020505@mailinator.com> <42402C19.9010704@mailinator.com> In-Reply-To: <42402C19.9010704@mailinator.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.147.74.171 X-Trace: sv3-VxemxrmYe4qciLu4XFdM0ds39UFDicDtObhVRDaOX4cK61HX/6BXLqNc5y5yaH0JboCL5tjLANuMH6A!FeYOR2OPX4iks2RtpPxU8RQszgKM1MV42q7hjCgbf8So2tBPDYK+TduxLCVQ7w== X-Complaints-To: abuse@comcast.net X-DMCA-Complaints-To: dmca@comcast.net X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.32 Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:9770 fr.comp.lang.ada:932 be.comp.programming:1511 nl.comp.programmeren:6102 Date: 2005-03-22T19:17:18-05:00 List-Id: Alex R. Mosteo wrote: > Jeff C wrote: > >> Alex R. Mosteo wrote: >> >>> Dirk Craeynest wrote: >>> >>>> 20:00-20:15 - Eclipse plug-in for Ada (ObjectAda or GNAT) >>>> --------------------------------------------------------- >>>> Speaker >>>> Patricia Langle, Aonix France >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> I keep hearing about this Eclipse IDE. They chant excellences, at >>> least for its original Java usage. Does anyone know what would be the >>> extent of such a plug-in? Could it eventually be an alternative to GPS? >>> >>> Kind regards, >>> >>> Alex. >> >> >> >> I know several developers that love it for Java and C++. Several >> vendors are also embracing it as the base framework for hosting their >> tools (e.g. Wind River's new tool suite is eclipse based). >> >> It clearly is an alternative to GPS (not saying it is a better or >> worse alternative...but it is one). It does not "appear" to be open >> source. It certainly is not freely downloadable last time I checked. > > > This has changed or something (I had the idea it has always been open > source), since I already downloaded and installed it some time ago, but > then I never did any development with it. I've just launched it off and > there's no restrictions apparently. > Eclipse is open source but a plug-in is needed for each new language. There is a "Free" C++ plugin. Aonix has written an Ada one but it does not (appear) to be freely available. Note that a full Eclipse language plug in is non trivial because it is capable of doing more than just an editor that calls a compiler. So are you saying you have previously downloaded the Aonix Ada Eclipse plugin or just Exclipse in general?