Re: AdaBrowse 2.1

["David Botton" <David@Botton.com>]

I've made available the GNAT-3.14p Runtime on AdaPower at
http://www.adapower.com/lang/gnatrun/packages.html using AdaBrowse 2.01 (I
didn't have a chance to update yet to the new version).

Check this out!

I love AdaBrowse... Thanks!

and you will too!!

...end of infomertial....

David Botton



"Thomas Wolf" <t_wolf@angelfire.com> wrote in message
news:MPG.178bb55a24a7f0da989690@news.ip-plus.net...
>
> I've published version 2.1 of AdaBrowse. It's available at
> the URL
>
>   http://home.tiscalinet.ch/t_wolf/tw/ada95/adabrowse/
>
> in source form and as a pre-built executable for Win NT/2k
> and GNAT 3.14p.
>
> Changes from the previous version (2.01):
>
> - Start tags of user-defined HTML entities may now have
>   attributes, which can be referenced in the replacement.
>
> - AdaBrowse 2.1 supports user-defined formatting rules for
>   descriptions, giving lots of flexibility in particular for
>   generating HTML from legacy code.
>
> - Some corrections in HTML generation: no more misplaced <P>
>   tags, typo correction (2.01 generated a MTEA tag instead of
>   META), improved handling of unknown tags, sxtray end tags,
>   and of character entities, new "<!DOCTYPE" string.
>
> - The makefile now tries to figure out the name of the compiler
>   called by gnatmake, and sets up AdaBrowse to use that as the
>   default name. As a result, the default compile command will
>   generally be "gcc -c -gnatc -gnatt", but on some Linux
>   systems, it should be "gnatgcc -c -gnatc -gnatt".
>     (Note: I don't have a Linux system at hand. Could somebody
>   who has successfully built AdaBrowse 2.1 on Linux and who
>   has a setup where the Ada-enabled gcc is called gnatgcc please
>   tell me whether this works? See file ad-setup.ads after
>   having run make; it should have "gnatgcc" as the compiler
>   name!)
>     Also note: in any case, you can still override the default
>   by giving an explicit compile command in a configuration file.
>
> AdaBrowse 2.1 has passed all my regression tests; the generated
> HTML has been verified to be compliant to the "HTML 4.01
> Transient" DTD.
>
> See the included user's guide on how and where to submit bug
> reports.
>
> On a side-note: the Util subsystem (a collection of generally
> useful Ada 95 packages, published under the GMGPL) used by
> AdaBrowse and available at the URL
>
>   http://home.tiscalinet.ch/t_wolf/tw/ada95/util/
>
> also has been updated. It includes now many more useful
> utility packages, such a thick (stream-based) binding to
> the popen/pclose routines available on Win32 and Linux,
> extended calendar support, time formatting operations,
> utility string operations, operations on path names,
> a configuration file reader, environment variable
> substitution, and much, much more...
>
> The full AdaBrowse-generated reference for these packages
> also is online
>
>   http://home.tiscalinet.ch/t_wolf/tw/ada95/util/doc/
>
> This documentation is also included in the tarball.
>
> --
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
> Thomas Wolf                          e-mail: t_wolf@angelfire.com
>