Re: Ada-mode to be abandoned?

[Fernando Oleo Blanco]

On 1/7/24 17:48, Philip Kaludercic wrote:

> On this point, I believe it could be improved if `ada-mode' could check
> if the necessary programs are installed, and otherwise try to build them
> on its own (as other packages do, e.g. pdf-tools).  Playing around with
> ada-mode today, I just got an error message after error message, having
> to guess what packages, dependencies and package managers to install,
> that I ended up writing my code in fundamental mode, which I find sad.
> 
> --
> Philip Kaludercic

I believe when the user tries to run ada-mode a message about compiling 
pops up, but I have not done that in a while. The documentation explains 
the process well. Though I do not blame you for this experience. As I 
said in my previous message, the users expect a package/major-mode to 
just work after installation; and that is how things should be. If you 
need help, just let me know and I will try my best to aid you.

On a related topic, there is already an ada-tree-sitter grammar system 
available [1], in case someone did not know and just in case this makes 
things easier.

Best regards,
Fer

[1] https://github.com/briot/tree-sitter-ada