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> I can't speak for the OP, but the obvious reason is that they cause
> vendor> lock-in. If any significant amount of your project's functionality
> is tied up in .GPR files, then that functionality is not portable to
> another Ada compiler. (.GPR files are not Ada!).

Of course you're right but I'm only writing very small apps trying to learn
Ada at this point. But in principle my objection is what you said and that's
why I said I try not to learn non-transferrable bits because it's a waste of
time in my opinion.