Re: AdaGIDE 6.52 release (Ada GUI IDE for Windows 9x/NT/...)

["Gautier Write-only-address" <gautier_niouzes@hotmail.com>]

Ehud Lamm:

>While we are on this topic:
>- I wish I had time to help, but seeing as I don't, let me just
>say that building better beginner's oriented IDEs is highly
>important. Many students of mine (for example) shy away from Ada
>because AdaGIDE (which I really like) doesn't look like Visual Studio.

I would be prudent if you associate "beginner's oriented" and
"looking like Visual Studio". The possibility of unzipping
a mix of sources, object files, dlls and data, opening an Ada
procedure, click "Build", click "Run" is (maybe) a plus of
AdaGIDE, difficult to beat (especially if you introduce project
files with hardcoded pathes, names etc.).
You also can test a piece of code appearing in this newsgroup
without even touching the keyboard.
For user-friendliness I'd rather look on the Borland side (Delphi).

For the ressemblance with Visual Studio maybe ObjectAda would be
a better fit ?

>- I'd be very interested in better COM support integration. By this I
>mean something like what you find in PythonWin. (the IDE determines
>which COM interfaces are available on your machine, and knows how to
>invoke a binding creation utility).

If it doesn't harm the people NOT using COM, it would really be a plus!

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