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=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,c15063243269efcd X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news3.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!bcklog1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.comcast.com!news.comcast.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2006 06:48:28 -0500 Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2006 07:39:49 -0400 From: Jeffrey Creem User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (Windows/20050923) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Meet the new GPS...same as the old GPS... References: <1151320748.360707.79490@u72g2000cwu.googlegroups.com> In-Reply-To: <1151320748.360707.79490@u72g2000cwu.googlegroups.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.147.74.171 X-Trace: sv3-BIJDVcFpDd9DtmVasVpbuPG/em2yye1HzDkLyQDHLbzKzRKczUsNBZ3BdddA6Bi1ZEfEkLuVQRIKDgM!hFCP8SVvM1GJiaupFeAZ8k/RCwVeXNzl2lcubt8NEIsTQ+IydNfWIfFa/BQsAxC40rAR+QqDwZEf!xv4= X-Complaints-To: abuse@comcast.net X-DMCA-Complaints-To: dmca@comcast.net X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.32 Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:5057 Date: 2006-06-27T07:39:49-04:00 List-Id: randomm@mindless.com wrote: > X-No-Archive: Yes > > 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.