From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me
X-Spam-Level: 
X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham
	autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4
X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit
X-Google-Thread: 103376,be23df8e7e275d73
X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public
X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-07-15 01:06:02 PST
Path: 
 archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!skynet.be!dispose.news.demon.net!news.demon.co.uk!demon!pogner.demon.co.uk!zap!not-for-mail
From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: GLIDE
Date: 15 Jul 2001 07:34:36 +0100
Organization: CodeFella
Message-ID: <x7vg0byk8eb.fsf@smaug.pushface.org>
References: <mailman.994732330.19029.comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org>
 <mailman.994781951.32588.comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org>
 <0zS27.187213$DG1.31590366@news1.rdc1.mi.home.com>
 <dKZ27.26879$B56.4674508@news2-win.server.ntlworld.com>
 <3B4C65F5.B304D12A@earthlink.net>
 <pK_27.27350$B56.4717960@news2-win.server.ntlworld.com>
 <9ihvff$l7i$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <XN037.15614$Kf3.190690@www.newsranger.com>
 <9ikab1$fo2$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <3B4DB934.78DE7575@earthlink.net>
 <3B4E582D.BA0FAC63@acm.org> <28d8936a.0107130726.1351ffbb@postin
 <3B4FB2BA.8DDFBDC4@acm.org>
NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost
X-NNTP-Posting-Host: pogner.demon.co.uk:158.152.70.98
X-Trace: news.demon.co.uk 995184359 nnrp-13:20434 NO-IDENT
 pogner.demon.co.uk:158.152.70.98
X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net
NNTP-Posting-Date: 15 Jul 2001 06:34:36 GMT
X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.7/Emacs 20.7
Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:9969
Date: 2001-07-15T06:34:36+00:00
List-Id: <comp.lang.ada>

Jeffrey Carter <jrcarter@acm.org> writes:

> So, I have to build it from sources, for Win98, with only instructions
> for UNIX? It doesn't come with emacs? Does the phrase "not ready for
> prime time" sound familiar?

A binary GLIDE consists (approximately) of

- Emacs
- a set of Emacs lisp source files
- documentation
- a tiny Ada front-end that fires up Emacs.

A source GLIDE omits Emacs.

You can get along fine with just a standard Emacs (20.3 or later, but
I'm not sure about that, the binary comes with 20.5, source works fine
on 20.7); nothing to build, provided you can manage putting lisp code
in your Emacs load path (or just follow the instructions).