Re: ada-mode and GNAT project files

[Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>]

none <""briot\"@(none)"> writes:

> AdaCore is no longer actively working on developing ada-mode,
> although we are still fixing bugs in it (in particular to keep it
> up-to-date with regards to the cross-references generated by GNAT in
> the ALI files).

My project are about 50/50 Glide/GPS. Personally I find GPS great for
debugging, but for development Emacs still rules. For a start, the
Visual Studio style uses huge amounts of screen real estate.

> As far as I know, the FSF version should contain almost the latest
> version. In any case, the version released with later versions of
> GNAT (or Glide, as our package is called) are the latest, and what I
> will contribute to the FSF, so I would encourage you to start from
> there).

In Carbon Emacs 22.0 I see ada-model.el at AdaCore 1.888, ada-xref.el
at AdaCode 1.181; while the 5.03a revisions are 1.202, 1.191 rsp.

> With regards to supporting the .gpr files: Glide contains a small
> Ada binary that parses the GPR file, and outputs a temporary .adp
> file that Emacs reads on the fly to get the list of source dirs and
> object dirs.

The AdaCode source distributions of Glide contain the source of this
utility (convert-prj). Would be good to have an FSF release too.

The 5.03a release works fine with 4.0.0 (here).