Re: Meet the new GPS...same as the old GPS...

[Jeffrey Creem <jeff@thecreems.com>]

randomm@mindless.com wrote:
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> Hello All,
> 
> I get the impression that I'm the only one (trying) to use GPS?  I just
> downloaded the June 2006 GPL edition and, as usual, it's a full-time
> job trying to get preferences set and saved.  This time some of the
> font selections are overridden (they revert) and the prefs aren't saved
> unless you do Save...more...all.  The working directory doesn't seem to
> be saved in any case.  I found the exact same problems with GPS in Win
> and Linux.  At this point I am trying to set up a development
> environment on Linux.
> 
> Also as with the 2005 GPL version of GPS, I cannot get it to open
> documentation in my browser.  Whether I specify mozilla or not, it
> tries to use mozilla, but for some reason mozilla doesn't open.  When I
> open a terminal and issue "mozilla file:///path.to.document " as shown
> in the GPS messages, mozilla happily opens the document.  Has anyone
> got this to work?!
> 
> It's difficult indeed to imagine that anyone at Adacore has spent more
> than five minutes looking at GPS in the last two years...
> 

I look at the CVS archives all the time and it is pretty clear that GPS 
remains in active development. Having said that, I agree that each time 
I have considered using it, I have been frustrated by one aspect or 
another and have dropped back to AdaGide on windows or vim/emacs/eclipse 
  with some command line compiling.

Several months ago, there was quite a lot of discussion on the eclipse 
CDT mailing list about building Ada support into CDT but it has gotten 
quiet. There are quite a few plugins that at least do semi-smart Ada 
editing for eclipse and it is pretty easy to setup to kick off a compile 
within eclipse but nothing does "go to line" on error yet.