Eclipse Ada Support - FYI

Eclipse Ada Support - FYI

[Jeff Creem]

While poking around I see that AdaCore has announced (perhaps not yet 
released) support for a GNATPro eclipse plugin (primarily targetting 
wind river's workbench which is elipse based).

http://www.gnat.com/pressroom_27.php


There are now three Ada vendors with Eclipse support in some fashion 
(DDC-I, Aonix and AdaCore).


Still none that are publically available.

There were some discussions a few months back on the Eclipse CDT mailing 
lists that some on the the CDT group were interested in supporting Ada 
but I have not heard a lot since then.

Re: Eclipse Ada Support - FYI

[Alex Xela]

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I would like to comment on one assertion: "Still none that are publically
available". It is not true as the Aonix plug-in has been available now for 2
months, is available on Linux and Windows, and is used on actual projects.

It is free when used with ObjectAda and one version for GNAT is also
available. Even if the plug-in is enhanced every day, the current versions
are of industrial quality and perfectly usable for real Ada developments.


"Jeff Creem" <jcreem@yahoo.com> a �crit dans le message de news: 
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> While poking around I see that AdaCore has announced (perhaps not yet 
> released) support for a GNATPro eclipse plugin (primarily targetting wind 
> river's workbench which is elipse based).
>
> http://www.gnat.com/pressroom_27.php
>
>
> There are now three Ada vendors with Eclipse support in some fashion 
> (DDC-I, Aonix and AdaCore).
>
>
> Still none that are publically available.
>
> There were some discussions a few months back on the Eclipse CDT mailing 
> lists that some on the the CDT group were interested in supporting Ada but 
> I have not heard a lot since then. 

Re: Eclipse Ada Support - FYI

[Jeff Creem]

Alex Xela wrote:
> I would like to comment on one assertion: "Still none that are publically
> available". It is not true as the Aonix plug-in has been available now for 2
> months, is available on Linux and Windows, and is used on actual projects.
> 
> It is free when used with ObjectAda and one version for GNAT is also
> available. Even if the plug-in is enhanced every day, the current versions
> are of industrial quality and perfectly usable for real Ada developments.
> 
> 

Yes. I did not choose my words carefully enough. I meant publically 
available in terms to imply that all people on this list could just go 
and download it for free. (or simply type in a credit card and pay for 
it for that matter).

ObjectAda is like many other products targeted at the giants. If you are 
a home user, even if you have the money to spend, you can't figure out 
how to spend it (or what the cost is) without dealing with some sales 
staff. Not really a knock on anonix. It is pretty standard for all 
things targetting "the enterpruse" that even the people who make the 
product recommendations can't get a reasonable story on cost, 
availability, licensing, etc without talking to someone.


Of course I could be missing the point of your e-mail. If there is a URL 
for a version that can either be downloaded for free or for which I can 
type in a credit card and buy it, it would be nice to know as this is 
one of the better kept secrets in the world of Ada as far as I can tell.