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News Release from: AdaCore | Subject: GPS 4.2
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 12 November 2007
Environment of choice for Ada
development
Upgraded version of Ada-oriented integrated development environment accompanies AdaCore's Gnat Pro toolset.
AdaCore has upgraded its integrated development environment with the release of Gnat Programming Studio (GPS) 4.2 This Ada-oriented IDE accompanies AdaCore's Gnat Pro toolset on most platforms
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 12 Jan 2006 at 8.00am (UK)
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Environment speeds Ada systems development
The Gnat Programming Studio is a sophisticated software development environment for the Ada programming language.
Development environment upgrades to Ada 2005
The latest and most advanced version of the Gnat Pro open-source Ada development environment supports all the major new features in Ada 2005.
With an emphasis on helping developers improve the quality and maintainability of their software, this GPS release includes a number of new features, enhancements and plugins, including support for code coverage and improved generation of documentation.
The advanced code coverage feature enables developers to test code and ensure that the software is properly covered, with the GPS user interface allowing them to visualise the coverage information at different levels of detail (from project down to source lines of code).
The improved and faster documentation generator uses Web 2.0 technologies to generate HTML pages, thus providing a web-based view of projects.
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Environment accelerated Ada programming
Gnat Programming Studio is an advanced, powerful integrated development environment that accompanies the Gnat Pro Ada language development toolset.
IDE supports remote programming
AdaCore has launched its remote programming solution, an advanced feature of the company's Gnat Programming Studio (GPS) 4.0 integrated development environment (IDE).
"As software complexity increases, developers are looking for an environment to help them create high quality code that is straightforward to produce and understand", says Arnaud Charlet, GPS Project Manager at AdaCore.
"GPS 4.2 delivers these capabilities".
"With its many enhancements based on customer feedback, it continues to be the environment of choice for professional Ada development".
Although GPS already supports the Ada 2005 standard, the GPS 4.2 enhancements will help developers take full advantage of both the new features as well as the existing Ada 95 object-oriented programming facilities.
Furthermore, GPS includes multiple-language support (including Ada, C and C++) and is available on a wide range of host environments.
Through its intuitive, unified visual interface, developers can access tools from both AdaCore and third parties, easing both development and maintenance.
As with all Gnat Pro components, GPS is distributed with full source code and is backed by AdaCore's rapid and expert online support.
GPS is a powerful integrated development environment (IDE) written in Ada, based on the GtkAda toolkit.
GPS' extensive source-code navigation and analysis tools can generate a broad range of useful information, including call graphs, source dependencies, project organisation, and complexity metrics.
It also provides support for configuration management through an interface to third-party Version Control Systems, and supports a variety of platforms, including Altix Linux, IA64 HP Linux, Solaris (sparc and x86), GNU/Linux (x86 and x86-64), and x86 Windows (2000, 2003, XP and Vista).
GPS is highly extensible; a simple scripting approach enables additional tool integration.
It is also customisable, allowing programmers to specialise various aspects of the program's appearance in the editor for a user-specified look and feel.
GPS 4.2 is scheduled for release at the beginning of December 2007, when it will be available to Gnat Pro customers on selected platforms.
GPS is included with the Gnat Pro Ada Development Environment.
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