From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.5-pre1 (2020-06-20) on ip-172-31-74-118.ec2.internal X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.8 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_50,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.5-pre1 X-Received: by 2002:ac8:6687:: with SMTP id d7mr8351530qtp.326.1614936998017; Fri, 05 Mar 2021 01:36:38 -0800 (PST) X-Received: by 2002:a25:c943:: with SMTP id z64mr12675718ybf.73.1614936997848; Fri, 05 Mar 2021 01:36:37 -0800 (PST) Path: eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!feeder1.feed.usenet.farm!feed.usenet.farm!feeder.usenetexpress.com!tr3.eu1.usenetexpress.com!news.uzoreto.com!feeder1.cambriumusenet.nl!feed.tweak.nl!209.85.160.216.MISMATCH!news-out.google.com!nntp.google.com!postnews.google.com!google-groups.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2021 01:36:37 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <60324cdd$0$31320$e4fe514c@news.kpn.nl> Injection-Info: google-groups.googlegroups.com; posting-host=97.124.195.10; posting-account=x5rpZwoAAABMN2XPwcebPWPkebpwQNJG NNTP-Posting-Host: 97.124.195.10 References: <602e608e$0$27680$e4fe514c@news.kpn.nl> <8cc91fa5-cf6c-4a32-8344-60aebcd4ef9en@googlegroups.com> <60312f42$0$21346$e4fe514c@news.kpn.nl> <60324cdd$0$31320$e4fe514c@news.kpn.nl> User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <1b1fb97b-9ead-42f3-ac57-96b8d14eb195n@googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: Alternative for Gnat Studio From: Jerry Injection-Date: Fri, 05 Mar 2021 09:36:38 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Xref: reader02.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:61482 List-Id: On Sunday, February 21, 2021 at 5:07:03 AM UTC-7, ldries46 wrote: > I found the Language support 22.0.4 for Ada and installed that It sayd=20 > it han .gpr support. But I cannot find how to run (debug) the project=20 > (existing project wit about 20-30 packages) I got Ada running with Visual Studio Code and found the process to be bruta= l, but I'm not very smart so you will no doubt do better. I complained to a= list at AdaCore and they promised to make it better. I probably did a bunc= h of things wrong but I finally got it to work. I installed the Ada Languag= e Server https://github.com/AdaCore/ada_language_server and then spent hour= s reading VScode docs and learning how to edit several json files. I brough= t over some bash scripts from TextMate that I had modified from the Ada plu= g for that app (thanks to whoever did that years ago). I edited keybindings= to make my fingers think they were still in TextMate. (I also spent time c= ustomizing a theme so that my eyeballs no longer hurt--more json editing.) = _Then_ I added the Language Support for Ada extension from within VSC which= is easy--just click. I can't compare the result to anything useful because= this is nearly my first experience with something like a real IDE (played = with GNAT Studio a few times) but it all seems pretty cool to me. When it w= orks. The extension crashes of course. I found a severe crasher and have ju= st now sent an MWE to AdaCore so let's see if anything happens with that. I= f interested scroll to the end at https://github.com/AdaCore/ada_language_s= erver/issues/202.