From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.6 (2021-04-09) 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=3.4.6 Path: eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!aioe.org!N/bBT90+fJ5f2hH/+d3Lnw.user.46.165.242.91.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Building the 2021 source release of GnatStudio Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2021 10:41:29 +0200 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Info: gioia.aioe.org; logging-data="2208"; posting-host="N/bBT90+fJ5f2hH/+d3Lnw.user.gioia.aioe.org"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@aioe.org"; User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.12.0 Content-Language: en-US X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.9.2 Xref: reader02.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:62435 List-Id: On 2021-07-29 09:49, Luke A. Guest wrote: > > On 29/07/2021 01:49, Randy Brukardt wrote: > >> Since the "main Ada IDE" isn't even an Ada program (primarily being >> programmed in Python), I'm not sure what it has to do with the >> reliability >> of Ada programs. If someone built an all-Ada IDE, then that might make >> more >> sense. And in any case, programs like an IDE are almost always installed >> from binary packages. > > Some people still have to build them. First, never ever use Python! But if you do, as there is no viable scripting alternative (Lua, Julia are only worse and no Ada script fulfills minimal requirements, last time I looked). I do use Python loading it dynamically. That eliminates all build problems, but creates ones with packaging... -- Regards, Dmitry A. Kazakov http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de