Re: ada-mode and GNAT project files (was: GVD)

[Tapio Kelloniemi <invalid@localhost.localdomain.com>]

"Ludovic Brenta" <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org> wrote:
>With my patch, the UI to edit and save .adp files is still there but
>useless and it should be removed.  Also, my patch does not support
>"includes" or "extends" in GNAT project files (i.e. will not pick up
>the source or object directories from them).

Will this be more work than a bit of recursion?

>Emacs is downstream from Emmanuel, so unfortunately a fork is
>inevitable if I am to distribute my patched ada-mode.

What about signing some legal papers and contributing directly to Emacs.
If they are willing to replace their ada-mode with our beter one,
everything is fine. Then nobody would use the Emmanuel mode, since Emacs
has a better (or at least no worse) version included.

>If the format of .ali file changes with the new GNAT for Debian,
>someone will have to update all ada-modes to cope with them for
>cross-references to work.  I haven't looked into this yet.  If
>Emmanuel does that, it should not be too difficult to merge into
>whatever-it-is-called-mode.

If we contribute our cla-mode to Emacs, we can still do this, since I
think that Emmanuel's mode belongs to FSF.

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Tapio