[photran] Some Eclipse/Photran annoyances ;-)

["Luud Heck" <luud.heck@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

Nothwithstanding the title of this mail, I'm quite happy with Photran.

However, I regularly run into several annoying parts of Photran /
Eclipse. I'm not sure which part of the code is to blame for these
annoyances: Eclipse, CDT or Photran, but I think it is good to get
them out in the open here as I'm using the Photran distribution
exclusively.

I'm running Photran 3.0.0 on Linux 64bit.

I regularly experience the following problems:

1. If the working directory for a run or debug session does not exist,
you cannot run or debug your app. Well ok, I can accept that. However,
you also cannot open the run... or debug... dialogs any more. the only
solution is to restart Eclipse/Photran.
(This has always been the case, also with older Photran releases.)

2. Regularly the Browse... button (e.g. when creating a new project or
looking for a different workspace) renders Eclipse/Photran unusable.
It seems to hang. If I'm really patient (i.e. waiting for many
minutes) it sometimes returns finally.

3. When using the fixed form editor, the Ctrl-/ key combo allows the
commenting out of code. However, the character used for marking a line
as comment is the exclamation mark. However, in FORTRAN77 this should
be either a capital C or an asterisk *. It would be great if this
could be configurable (as our code guidelines prescribe a capital 'C',
but in general the * is used frequently).

4. Here we use the Portland Group compilers. Currently we're using
version 5.2. This version works great with gdb. Both 32bit and 64bit
versions of our programs debug fine on a 64bit Linux host (RHEL 3.0).
It's a pity that there is no compiler filter yet to integrate this
compiler in Photran.

I would love to see this issues fixed. Definitely 1 and 2 as these are
really annoying.

Thanks for you efforts in bringing us Photran.

Regards,
Luud