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,LOTS_OF_MONEY autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,be23df8e7e275d73 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-07-11 19:54:37 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newshub2.home.com!news.home.com!news1.sttls1.wa.home.com.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "DuckE" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada References: <0zS27.187213$DG1.31590366@news1.rdc1.mi.home.com> Subject: Re: "is ada dead?" A challenge for all of us? X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Message-ID: Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 02:54:36 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.248.45.203 X-Complaints-To: abuse@home.net X-Trace: news1.sttls1.wa.home.com 994906476 24.248.45.203 (Wed, 11 Jul 2001 19:54:36 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 19:54:36 PDT Organization: Excite@Home - The Leader in Broadband http://home.com/faster Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:9847 Date: 2001-07-12T02:54:36+00:00 List-Id: "McDoobie" wrote in message news:0zS27.187213$DG1.31590366@news1.rdc1.mi.home.com... [...] > > > > One thing which i find realy boring that there is no real state of the > > art IDE for the GNAT available. This is what i am interested in. > > > > > > I tend to teeter more towards to Free Software side of things, ala LGPL. > However, I'm certainly in favor of commercial projects that develop > software which is actually of commercial quality.(Much of what passes > as a commercial app today falls far short of that goal.) > > A state of the art IDE sounds like an awsome idea. It could be implemented > for the GNAT system initially. If it was Open Source, it wouldn't be too > difficult to expand it to include other toolchains as well. > Perhaps this new IDE could start with GVD, which already has cross platform source level debugging built in, and add edit and compile capabilities. Perhaps a little code reuse? SteveD