Re: Ada Component Registry proposal

["Robert I. Eachus" <rieachus@comcast.net>]

sk wrote:

> Sorry, breaking my intentions. In case you havn't included a
> "field" for dependencies, you probably need to. For example,
> the OpenGL binding depends on AdaBindX.

Right now I have a Requires entry that can include other projects, 
compilers, Ada versions, hardware or operating systems.  It will 
probably get expanded a bit to allow for bindings to non-Ada code to say 
what they bind to.  (Or that may end up as a different type of entry. 
"Binds to" perhaps?)

There is also a category Supports which is similar but different in 
intent.  If software has been ported to several compilers or several 
operating systems, this allows documentation of what versions are known 
to be supported.

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