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,be23df8e7e275d73 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-07-11 07:57:01 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!skynet.be!grolier!btnet-peer0!btnet!news5-gui.server.ntli.net!ntli.net!news2-win.server.ntlworld.com.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "chris.danx" 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? MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 15:53:12 +0100 NNTP-Posting-Host: 62.252.152.231 X-Complaints-To: abuse@ntlworld.com X-Trace: news2-win.server.ntlworld.com 994863113 62.252.152.231 (Wed, 11 Jul 2001 15:51:53 BST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 15:51:53 BST Organization: ntlworld News Service Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:9792 Date: 2001-07-11T15:53:12+01:00 List-Id: > > 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. > 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. Could you define State Of The Art IDE for me please? A while back I had the idea for an IDE that could handle different compilers, and didn't need things on the PATH. Anyway, I didn't get very far, but recently I've been looking at the idea again, possibly using GWindows, and I'm looking for ideas. I was thinking of an IDE for Windows with some of the following - Syntax Highlighting - Project Management facilities - Code Completion (good for long package structures like x.y.a.b.c ?) - Possibility an Object browser - Ada Aware - Non Specific Compiler support - and others What other features would you like to see? What features would you not like to see? I would be willing to contribute time to this since my current project isn't anywhere near the coding stage (not that coding of an IDE would start straight off: DESIGN COMES FIRST), but I have a large gap in my time to fill (until october) and would be genuinly interested in a SotA IDE for Ada 95. Development wouldn't stop after october, just slow down a little (if i was the only developer!). I would hope the project to be open source, possibly under the GPL or X something or other licenses. Regards, Chris Campbell