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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: Ada for 1st year students
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On Wed, 15 Oct 2008 04:00:37 -0700 (PDT), christoph.grein@eurocopter.com
wrote:

> I don't understand this. If you have a more complex system (files
> distributed over many directories), use of a GNAT project file eases
> building the program.

It is not only a GPS problem. Visual Studio, GPS tries to imitate, has it,
Workbench as well (and totally unusable in addition). You need to create a
project up front. But typically people start a project with one or two
files and want to work on incrementally. Ada as a language allows this. GPR
project files do not.

> Of course, AdaGIDE is much simpler, so it's good for beginners, but
> use of it for my daily work - only over my dead body.

I like AdaGIDE's approach that a source file can be compiled immediately
and the "project" (I mean the *.ago file) is created in the background.
Later, as the project grows you can modify the project file.

BTW, I don't consider visual editing of project files as a strength. It
does not work in GPS, it also does not in Visual Studio. In both I edit
project files manually using a text editor. It would be much better if Ada
Core would scrap that MS stuff and invest freed resources into editing
project files as texts with on-the-fly checks, auto-completion support,
elaborated context help, getting rid of Phyton scripts. Also the language
of project files is far from being satisfactory (yes, it is not XML, but
not yet Ada! (:-))

-- 
Regards,
Dmitry A. Kazakov
http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de