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- From: fnf@fishpond.amigalib.com (Fred Fish)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: ADE
- Date: 3 Jan 1996 18:38:18 GMT
- Organization: Amiga Library Services
- Message-ID: <4ceier$eil@globe.indirect.com>
- References: <4cahvo$fcg@Mars.mcs.com>
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- In article <4cahvo$fcg@Mars.mcs.com>, Dan Linder <upside@MCS.COM> wrote:
- >
- >I was browsing around Fred Fish's ftp site when I stumbled upon this ADE
- >concept... a unified Amiga Development Environment.
-
- It's "unified" in the sense that the goal is that it is completely
- self hosting and includes source. I.E. that everything you need to build
- any part is included and you have the full source code to everything.
-
- Plus, all the binaries are rebuilt at each release. This ensures that
- the above goal is met and helps to ensure the stability and ability to
- interoperate for all the tools.
-
- This is just an extension of the idea started with the first FreshFish CD
- except that now everything is available via ftp and should be updated more
- often (like every 2-4 weeks). One problem that is just going to get worse
- is that a complete multistage rebuild after each significant change takes
- over two days on my A4000 with 40Mhz WarpEngine. I'm getting to be in
- serious need of an 060, but even that might not be enough. I suspect that
- once I get a linux based cross compilation environment set up on a fast
- Pentium that the recompile time will be cut to only a few hours, but
- I'm resistant to moving from a native environment to a cross environment
- for general development. Perhaps a good compromise will be to do all
- the intermediate builds in a cross environment and then do the final build
- before release in a native environment. This won't stress test everything
- quite as much, but will certainly reduce my stress level. :-)
-
- >When will the totally-unified, working system be available?
-
- Well, whats available right now under ftp.amigalib.com:pub/ade/... is
- a complete environment (much more so than anywhere else I know of).
- There is active ongoing development on several fronts, including work
- on the debugger, work on ports of other interesting programs, and
- hopefully some Amiga GUI specific work soon. People should feel free
- to "adopt" certain parts and work on making them better.
-
- -Fred
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