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Date: Sun, 4 Dec 2011 22:25:01 +0200
From: Tero Koskinen <tero.koskinen@iki.fi>
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Subject: Re: How to nicely distribute a simple Ada library?
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On Sun, 4 Dec 2011 11:19:49 +0000 (UTC)
Natasha Kerensikova <lithiumcat@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> sorry for spamming you again, and for the arrogance of thinking anyone
> might possibly want to use my code, but I'm wondering what is the best
> way to distribute a library (once it's ready for release) written in
> Ada.

Check how other open source Ada projects do it.

Examples:
Ahven
- http://sourceforge.net/projects/ahven/files/latest/download?source=files

Alog
- http://www.codelabs.ch/download/libalog-0.4.tar.bz2

Adacontrol
- https://sourceforge.net/projects/adacontrol/files/adactl-src-1.13r8.tgz

I personally try to ignore all distribution specific policies as much
as possible and just make sure that my test program, which uses my
libraries, works after I have installed ("make install") my library to
the system. [1]

At the moment in Ahven, I provide installer only for Linux/Unix
systems. Windows users are expected to do the installation by hand
(copy src\*.adb src\*.ads etc. c:\installation_directory).

> 
> 
> 
> Thanks for your help,
> Natasha


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[1] https://bitbucket.org/tkoskine/ahven/src/0d53c00ea8fe/tools/test_release.sh