Re: gnathtml in Ada ?

[Brian Orpin <abuse@borpin.co.uk>]

On Tue, 12 Dec 2000 15:11:56 GMT, Ted Dennison <dennison@telepath.com>
wrote:

>In article <000d01c063d0$1e0d7640$0502a8c0@db2000>,
>  comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org wrote:
>> > Without that feature, the whole thing could be done quite trivially
>> > using OpenToken...
>("that feature" referring to support for traversing the user's Ada lib)
>>
>> I assume this means you have volunteered for the task.
>:-)
>
>Actually, I almost went ahead and did it. It wouldn't take too long, and
>I think the sources would be small enough to post here. (Remember that
>OpenToken already comes with an Ada tokenizer.) I decided against it
>because without the trans-file cross-references, it wouldn't be horribly
>useful (you might as well use a colorizing text editor).

The cross linking is the useful bit.

>But if there's interst, I suppose I could whip it up real quick and post
>it. Someone else with more free time could then take it and figure out
>the Ada library traversal issues.

You could simply offer the option to include library paths in the call
(or by config file) and any unit which is not found does not have links
produced.

-- 
Brian Orpin    BAE SYSTEMS, Edinburgh
"If you really know C++, there isn't much you can't do with it, though it may 
not always be what you intended!"  Tucker Taft 1998