Re: Visibility problems with package instantiations.....

["Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>]

"Stephen Leake" <stephen_leake@acm.org> wrote in message
news:mailman.8.1070543384.31149.comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org...
> > Then, do not you feel that packing everything in one directory is
> > similar to packing all packages in one huge all_stuff.ada file?
>
> Since the Ada compiler treats compilation units in one file much
> differently than compilation units in separate files, but cares not at
> all about what directories things are in, these are very different issues.

That's a mis-feature of a particular Ada implementation, one that follows
the "letter" of the standard but not the spirit. So far as I know, all other
Ada compilers directly support compiling files containing multiple units.
And it certainly seems to me that the intent of the standard was that that
would directly supported. So Dmitry is right -- there is no practical
difference.

But the basic point should be, do what makes most sense to you and your
project, and get tools that support that well. The more flexible the tools,
the better (unless, like me, you have your own personal development system
that you fix/upgrade when its annoying. But that's not the norm!).

                    Randy.