Re: GNAT GPL is proving...educational

[Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>]

Niklas Holsti <niklas.holsti@tidorum.invalid> writes:

> Note that AdaCore provides the "gnatchop" tool to split multi-unit
> source files into single-unit files following the GNAT default naming
> rules. Basically, you say
>
>    gnatchop multi-unit-file-name
>
> and the resulting single-unit files appear in the working directory.

Also, gnatchop[1] has the flags

  -r       generate Source_Reference pragmas referencing original source file

and

  -w       overwrite existing filenames

which can be used to maintain a multiple-unit source file. I can't see
how to make GPS support this, and I can't find whether AdaGIDE will
because it's Windows-only; for Emacs, I wrote a minor mode[2] which runs
gnatchop -w -r whenever a gnatchop-mode buffer is saved.

[1] http://docs.adacore.com/gnat-unw-docs/html/gnat_ugn_9.html#SEC108
[2] https://sourceforge.net/u/simonjwright/gnatchop/wiki/Home/