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From: Stephen Leake <Stephe.Leake@nasa.gov>
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Subject: Re: Re-Marketing Ada (was "With and use")
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"Chad R. Meiners" <crmeiners@hotmail.com> writes:

> "Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" <ve3wwg@cogeco.ca> wrote in message
> news:xKNub.11738$iT4.1349744@news20.bellglobal.com...
> > If all I had to do was add a Makefile command:
> >
> >     adagen freds_fft.h
> >
> > to generate a thin binding, in a consistent and
> > portable way, then I'd have mighty little resistance
> > to using Ada in a given project.
> 
> Why would it be a makefile command?  

Because it's highly likely that freds_fft.h will change, requiring the
matching Ada spec to change.

That is one of the problems with the current Win32Ada binding; it is
not up to date with the latest Win32 API from Microsoft, because the
tool that created it has not been rerun.

> Shouldn't you run the command once and then intergrate the resultant
> package into your project?

It is very important to keep traceability to the original source, and
to be able to repeat any part of the process that produced the final
result. 

-- 
-- Stephe