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From: sommar@enea.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Standardized library managers
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Date: Fri, 30-Oct-87 19:22:12 EST
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Having just posted a set of Ada files to comp.sources.misc
I have been thinking of Ada library managers. The language
itself is very standardized, but how about the libraries?
  If I post a C source (God forbid!) I can easliy provide a 
make-file and everyone who gets the posting and is sitting on 
a Unix system just have to run the make-file to bring the 
pieces together in the right order.
  But for Ada I can't do that. There are many Ada systems
available for Unix and as far as I know their library
managers can work very differently. So I have to state
the compilation order in the READ ME file. Now, my program
is quite small, yet there are seven files. Ada modules tend 
to be fairly small.
  Wouldn't be nice to be able provide a compilation file
that would run on any machine, on any OS, with any Ada system?
-- 
Erland Sommarskog       
ENEA Data, Stockholm    
sommar@enea.UUCP        
                    It could have been worse; it could have been Pepsi.