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=-0.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FORGED_GMAIL_RCVD, FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: border2.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!usenet.blueworldhosting.com!feeder01.blueworldhosting.com!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx02.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: =?UTF-8?B?QmrDtnJuIEx1bmRpbg==?= Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: GNAT GPL is not shareware Date: Tue, 06 Jan 2015 18:46:33 +0100 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: <87bnmetex4.fsf@ludovic-brenta.org> <4ae7f0d5-d681-4be9-95bc-b5e789b3ad40@googlegroups.com> <87tx06rve6.fsf@ludovic-brenta.org> <87lhlirpk0.fsf@ludovic-brenta.org> <79f3eff7-2b45-40ae-af94-fa9a17426d82@googlegroups.com> <87bnmd8mg2.fsf@ixod.org> <19cf9bc2-f8b9-4735-b427-7b070dda59da@googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2015 17:46:20 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="03c9533e8055a27e12e61eb5b8956452"; logging-data="4599"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/VE8yInAJNK6dbObDXlw3a" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Icedove/31.2.0 In-Reply-To: Cancel-Lock: sha1:dcYXDJO8HVkinxPfWjg9vm51aL4= Xref: number.nntp.giganews.com comp.lang.ada:191719 Date: 2015-01-06T18:46:33+01:00 List-Id: > On 2015-01-06 17:44, Shark8 wrote: > >> On 06-Jan-15 08:09, Björn Lundin wrote: > > I did reply to cla, not only to me. > > >>> The solution is to change path first, >>> and build AWS with Gnat-FSF. >>> GPS will pick up gnat tools first in path. >> >> That's a disgusting solution. >> Not because it works, but because there's any path-manipulation at all. >> -- This is to say, modern IDEs *don't go far enough*, let's get >> version-control and the build system in there too so there's no >> [variable] external dependencies like the PATH. > Which of course makes me wonder where YOU install compilers? Somewhere in the system path? THAT is disgusting. Quoting wikipedia : second last sentence: "The PATH variable makes it easy to run commonly used programs located in their own folders." -- Björn