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Subject: Re: ANN: Simple components for Ada v4.41 released
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On Monday, August 5, 2019 at 5:57:20 AM UTC-6, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
> The new release is focused on ASN.1 support. The implementation does not 
> require ASN.1 compiler. It is based on reflection of Ada attributes. The 
> objects corresponding to ASN.1 objects are put together into record 
> types and the encoding is deduced from the placement. The implementation 
> provides arena pool to allocate data associated with ASN.1 objects. This 
> allows to handle very large and indefinite ASN.1 objects without 
> allocating maximum possible memory in advance. This also enables sharing 
> memory between ASN.1 CHOICE alternatives as well as recursively defined 
> ASN.1 objects. Implementations of LDAP and X.509 certificates based on 
> ASN.1 are provided.
> 
>     http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de/ada/components.htm
> 
> Changes to the previous version:
> 
> - The package OpenSSL was extended;
> - Added implementation of ASN.1 encoding;
> - X.509 ASN.1 certificates implementation added;
> - LDAP implementation added.
> 
> -- 
> Regards,
> Dmitry A. Kazakov
> http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de

Wow!
This is incredible news, especially for things like the Wasabee browser project.
There was someone who was working on an Ada/SPARK ASN.1 compiler (Peter Chapin?) and I think the people doing this project -- https://github.com/ttsiodras/asn1scc -- which *is* an ASN.1 compiler.

WRT the OpenSSL dependency, how much work would it be to get rid of it?