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,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,a073fa836a03b290 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-05-11 18:07:41 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news.cis.ohio-state.edu!news.compuserve.com!news-master.compuserve.com!not-for-mail From: DPH Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Gnat cross compiling FreeBSD to Win32 ? Date: Sat, 11 May 2002 21:09:12 -0400 Organization: CompuServe Interactive Services Message-ID: References: <3CD1FFC5.4050607@qwest.net> <5ee5b646.0205030057.7cb47a2d@posting.google.com> <3CDD3699.2090809@qwest.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: mid-tgn-ngu-vty137.as.wcom.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: suaar1ab.prod.compuserve.com 1021165660 5997 216.192.87.137 (12 May 2002 01:07:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@compuserve.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 12 May 2002 01:07:40 GMT X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.8/32.548 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:23913 Date: 2002-05-12T01:07:40+00:00 List-Id: On Sat, 11 May 2002 20:21:06 +0000 (UTC), Preben Randhol wrote: >On 11 May 2002 20:17:08 +0200, Pascal Obry wrote: >> Please don't be so hard with Windows. I have yet to find my XP box to >> crash... And yes I'm pushing it a lot :) Windows 2000/XP are very stable. > >But oh so cumbersome compared to Linux when doing development. In >windows you *need* an IDE, in Linux you can do most of these things in >other ways. > >Preben Not to be argumentative, but please describe. Just take debugging for example. In Borland C++, I can make the cursor hover over most any variable on the screen and get the value given to me in a popup tooltip. I find that very convenient and can't see how a command line interface (or anything else besides an IDE or other graphical interface, although you may have some mechanism I'm not familiar with) would be as convenient. In Borland, I can bring up the whole array of breakpoints I have, and, in a window, see how they are configured - whether they are instantaneous breaks or count passes or wait for conditions and if so be able to view the conditions. How is such convenience accomplished without an IDE? I've thought about going to Linux for reasons having to do with Bill building in copy protection to things like Windows Media Player and trying to keep it all hush-hush (but hush-hush doesn't work with the internet around! ) and just generally being too damn friendly with those that want to make it possible for record companies to be able to force you to listen to a song on just 1 machine, not be able to rip it to a CD and take it in the car, etc. Linux looks like a way around that. And my Win 98 will do it now, and I'm not buying W2K or XP or etc. that are likely to be used against me. So... there's linux, which is built for users, not for record companies. So, anyway, I've thought of going to Linux as described, but have dreaded it as a step backward with having to deal with a command line again (I hate that...) Of course, now there's Borland Builder 6 for Linux, and GPS is coming for Ada. Wheee... Dave Head