Re: Project structure with Gnat

["David C. Hoos, Sr." <david.c.hoos.sr@ada95.com>]

Vladimir Olensky <vladimir_olensky@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> All that of course trivial but it is rather annoying as it is intended to
be
> done from command line or by using batch file.
> So it is not convenient to do that from AdaGide. As AdaGide comes with
GNAT
> it would be much better to use GNAT/GCC  switches to redirect output where
> needed.
> Unfortunately in this area combination of GNAT with GCC do  things upside
> down.
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I do not understand the above comment. The AdaGIDE
Tools => "GNAT Options in Current Directory" menu selection has a
Target Directory option which does just that.  It seems completely simple to
me.  Remember, also, that while AdaGIDE is distributed with GNAT for _NT
only_,
it is not made nor maintained by Ada Core Technologies -- it is a work of
the
U. S. Air Force Academy.


> Tucker Tuft once said something like that :  "it is better to use language
> than to struggle with it".
> It is not good when  system does not help to use itself but rather provoke
> for struggle (using some workarounds).
> Here again we see the difference between highly successful commercial
> systems (e.g. Delphi, MSVS) and some others in their approach to user
needs.
> Anything that makes life of user more easy helps to succeed.
> Anything that annoys user does not help to succeed.
> People in general are very sensitive to small annoying inconveniences.
> Of course it is easy to blame people for that but it leads nowhere in
> general.
>
Perhaps if people paid the same price for GNAT/AdaGIDE as for Delphi, MSVS,
it would be justified to complain.

> Regarding this particular issue it is so trivial thing for compiler system
> developers to provide output  files redirection according to their types
and
> this is such common need that I do not understand why it is not done so
far
> by GNAT/GCC. It is very convenient alternative to more heavy project
> management systems.
> With several proper switches all such things could be done on the fly.
>
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> Regards.
>
> P.S. Regarding Ada promoting:
> There exists site www.developer.com  with thousands of different things
but
> I did not find any Ada reference there. That is not very good.
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