[Emacs-ada-mode] Thanks and my first enquiry Fecha: Mon, 21 Aug 2006 22:26:52 +0200

[Jean-Pierre Rosen]

Stephen Leake a écrit :
> Ludovic's patch to use GNAT project files (*.gpr) instead of Emacs
> project files (*.adp) is a separate issue, and one of the things we
> need to discuss more fully. Which was one of the motivations for
> creating this mailing list.
I would greatly favor a separate utility (i.e. revive gpr2prj). The 
reason is that ASIS does not support .gpr files, and AdaCore has no plan 
to change that, safe from finding a sponsor with really deep pockets. 
Any ASIS tool (including adacontrol ;-) is in a very bad situation with 
people who use .prj files. That's one of the reasons why I never 
switched to .gpr.

>> as well as the source code utility from AdaCore. Is this convert-prj
>> executable the same tool than the one called gpr2prj in the web
>> page?
> 
> I believe we are both talking about the same tool, yes. At one time,
> there was an executable that AdaCore distributed that would read a GNAT
> project file and output an equivalent Emacs project file. That doesn't
> seem to be in GNAT 5.04a, nor in GNAT-GPL-2006.
gpr2prj has been removed from all recent distributions. I think it was 
intended to ease the transition, but the net result was that people did 
not transition at all...

> There is a brief list of issues relating to switching to *.gpr files
> at http://stephe-leake.org/emacs/ada-mode/emacs-ada-mode.html . Does
> anyone have others to add?
I have nothing against emacs supporting *also* .gpr files, but by all 
means, please keep the .adp!

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