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=-1.9 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham
	autolearn_force=no version=3.4.5-pre1
Path: eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail
From: "Jeffrey R. Carter" <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.not.acm.org>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: Suggestion about best practice with .gpr files
Date: Sun, 30 May 2021 22:22:13 +0200
Organization: Also freenews.netfront.net; news.tornevall.net;
 news.eternal-september.org
Message-ID: <s90s5l$b3d$1@dont-email.me>
References: <f6b41bac-39d2-441d-a89d-3485bf3fa99bn@googlegroups.com>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Injection-Date: Sun, 30 May 2021 20:22:13 -0000 (UTC)
Injection-Info: reader02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="8b247beaf147f171cf06542a056cc93f";
	logging-data="11373"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org";	posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+FTEMlmzlA7ZFxQGQxaN3t8za3RK6d/6s="
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101
 Thunderbird/78.8.1
Cancel-Lock: sha1:8Cm192S01Cji7omJNiu82A7iHl0=
In-Reply-To: <f6b41bac-39d2-441d-a89d-3485bf3fa99bn@googlegroups.com>
Content-Language: en-US
Xref: reader02.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:62054
List-Id: <comp.lang.ada>

On 5/30/21 7:37 PM, mockturtle wrote:
> 
> Do there exist some kind of "best practice" for this?

The best practice is not to use project files. When everything is is Ada, they 
only add unnecessary and non-portable complexity. Unnecessary complexity is a 
sign of incompetence.

The same is true of build directory structures.

-- 
Jeff Carter
"It's all right, Taggart. Just a man and a horse being hung out there."
Blazing Saddles
34