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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
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Subject: Re: Should Inline be private in the private part of a package spec?
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2012 09:37:04 +0200
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On Thu, 9 Aug 2012 20:10:57 -0700 (PDT), Shark8 wrote:

> I have mixed feelings about gpr-files.

GPR has its issues but it is a major step forward comparing to other
techniques.

> It would be interesting to have a DB-based system (or somesuch) where the
> source isn't stored as a simple text-file; though perhaps that would be a
> lot of work for little payoff. (The library-system and ALI-files could be
> handled in this manner though.)

This is a different issue. ClearCase for example keeps sources in a DB, yet
interfaced as plain text files.

However the point is valid. The OS should be natively OO and the Ada source
should be an object implementing various interfaces additionally to the
"text buffer" interface. In some different world, but this one dominated by
living fossils...

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Dmitry A. Kazakov
http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de