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 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,77a63690022306d1 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-03-01 18:20:36 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.cwix.com!wn2feed!wn1feed!worldnet.att.net!204.127.198.203!attbi_feed3!attbi.com!rwcrnsc54.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Wannabe h4x0r Subject: Re: NetBeans and ADA? Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada References: User-Agent: Pan/0.11.1 (Unix) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Comment-To: "Eric Merritt" Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.245.48.122 X-Complaints-To: abuse@attbi.com X-Trace: rwcrnsc54 1015035633 12.245.48.122 (Sat, 02 Mar 2002 02:20:33 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 02 Mar 2002 02:20:33 GMT Organization: AT&T Broadband Date: Sat, 02 Mar 2002 02:20:33 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:20680 Date: 2002-03-02T02:20:33+00:00 List-Id: On Thu, 28 Feb 2002 08:43:41 -0500, Eric Merritt wrote: > I have been thinking along these same lines, though not for netbeans (I > personally dislike that particular development platform). Brewing in my > mind has been a set of plugins to support Ada in the Eclipse > environment. As yet it is just an idea in the very early stages of > forming, but at least this shows that someone else is haveing the same > ideas. > > For those of you not familiar with these platforms for development > (IDE's actually). They are both supposedly cross language development > envirnments orginally supporting java. Netbeans is by far the more > mature of the two and can be found at www.netbeans.org. Eclipse is a new > open source offering from IBM and a group of vendors. Its heritage > includes the VisualAge for Java series of IDE's (Personally the best in > the business from my perspective) and further back the Envy smalltalk > envirnment. It may be viewed at www.eclipse.org. Both of these are open > source and freely available. I do warn you however that both are also > resource hogs like no other. > > > If anyone is interested in taking on this project I would be willing to > put in time to see this come to fruition even in netbeans. >From what little I've seen of the Eclipse environment, I would be very interested in working on a project of that sort. Although I dont know how much help I would be as I'm still relatively new to Ada95. I am starting to get an intuitive feel for the language though, so I could be of use in debugging and perhaps doing a small plugin or two. Yeah, Eclipse looks real nice. Would be even nicer with Ada95 support. What do ya have in mind? Chris