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 autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Building Matreshka on Windows Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2016 21:18:36 +0100 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: References: <3c41f737-a1d9-40a5-aea3-08c4b61baaa8@googlegroups.com> <753a3a53-4c3a-4c6f-9f9b-b7d1e5c5f24e@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: s3c6wwRqkurrfTZpuYYZ+w.user.gioia.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.4.0 X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:32233 Date: 2016-11-03T21:18:36+01:00 List-Id: On 2016-11-03 19:02, Olivier Henley wrote: > On Thursday, November 3, 2016 at 12:10:49 PM UTC-4, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote: > >> Because in my opinion it is built upon an inferior technology. It uses >> XML, it is not self-contained (has a mess of semi-hidden supplementary >> files spread all around the system). It is very easy and common to have >> gprbuild not working where gnatmake never had any problem. The biggest >> danger is turning it into yet another "configure" / CMake. > > Why did they move from gnatmake then? Who knows? Why GPS uses Python scripts instead of Ada? -- Regards, Dmitry A. Kazakov http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de