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From: Stan Shebs <shebs@andros.cygnus.com>
Subject: Re: Ada and Mac (Was: New version of AppletMagic)
Date: 1996/10/08
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Date: 1996-10-08T00:00:00+00:00
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jhopper@erinet.com (jim hopper) writes:

> 1. make files between mpw and gcc are MUCH different.  stan made a
> translator which does some of the work, but i don't yet know how much
> work its going to be to move ada make to mpw

Point me at the GNAT makefile and I'll set up a basic mpw-make.sed.
I've done enough now that it's pretty easy to write a new one.

> 3. it appears that because of the way mpw has forced stan to translate
> the make files and patches that it will be a lot more work to maintain
> the updates than it is with gnat.

Depends on how the GNAT makefile is set up.  The base GCC makefile
editor is the most complicated of all the makefile sed scripts I've had
to write, and it's been changed 10 times in the past year, of which
4-5 were to track GCC makefile changes (internal Cygnus versions of
FSF code are more turbulent than released versions).

> bottom line, i would really like to have a version that was a
> metrowerks plugin, but mpw version is just not worth the trouble.  mpw
> offers NO advantages (other than some people already have it) over
> machten once the new codebuilder version comes out from tenon.  This
> will happen in the next month or so depending on how quick we get
> native mac tasking wrapped up.

MPW *is* Apple's officially supported programming environment.  Even
with its limitations, it can do many tricks that the IDEs can only
dream of, such as building MacOS itself...

							Stan Shebs
							Cygnus Support
							shebs@cygnus.com