Re: Having a problem building with win32ada

["Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>]

On Mon, 08 Mar 2010 11:30:29 +0000, John McCabe wrote:

> On Fri, 05 Mar 2010 20:24:17 +0000, Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
> wrote:
> 
>>John McCabe <john@nospam.assen.demon.co.uk> writes:
>>
>>> 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. OK,
the debugger is a total crap, but it is not GPS's fault, but the gdb's one.
Project setting dialog is unusable, but nobody would create gpr files using
it anyway. I would just throw it away in AdaCore's place. GPS also has some
problems, which are rather to addressed to GTK.

>>A colleague had exactly the same problem, it took a moment or two for
>>inspiration to strike.
> 
>>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.

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Dmitry A. Kazakov
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