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From: John McCabe <john@nospam.assen.demon.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: Having a problem building with win32ada
Date: Mon, 08 Mar 2010 12:28:11 +0000
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On Mon, 8 Mar 2010 12:52:28 +0100, "Dmitry A. Kazakov"
<mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> wrote:

>>>> Is it just me or is GPS really crap?
>>>
>>>GPS is a work in progress, I guess.
>> 
>> LOL - very diplomatic :-)
>
>You didn't see the first versions of GPS! Presently GPS is quite good.

Oh!

>>>Personally I prefer Emacs ada-mode except for debugging, when GPS is
>>>pretty neat.

>> Yes - well, mmm. I might look at using Emacs again, but I think I
>> might just try GNATBench in Eclipse, now I'm aware that sometimes it's
>> worth changing the gpr file to get things to work!

>Eclipse is certainly much worse than GPS, slow, ugly, unstable. I hope
>AdaCore will abandon GNATBench and concentrate all efforts on GPS.

I would tend towards the opposite. I think they'd be better off
spending their time building good quality plug-ins for more mature and
more widely used IDEs (e.g. Eclipse, Microsoft Visual Studio) than
developing their own proprietary one. It's going to take a lot of
effort to get GPS to the point where someone says "wow" when they see
it. I know it has some great features, but....

Anyway - this isn't really the place to discuss the IDE but thanks for
your comments.