Re: Ada package registry?

["Thomas Løcke" <thomas@12boo.net>]

On 02/01/2016 10:32 AM, Georg Bauhaus wrote:
> Could you say something about portability across implementations
> of Haskell?


The stack tool is, to my knowledge, heavily focused on the GHC compiler
right now, but that is to be expected as GHC is by far the most commonly
used Haskell compiler - some would perhaps even argue that it is THE
Haskell compiler.

But using stack does not in any way keep you from building your project
with UHC, if you're so inclined. Stack doesn't enforce building with
stack, it just enables you to do so.

What you get with stack is a dead simple way to make sure that packages
_always_ build, even very complicated and large packages. It enables you
to define compiler version/dependencies, and be comfortable in knowing
that stack will handle those dependencies for you and other stack users.

It provides for a very lean and reliable approach for making and
maintaining Haskell projects.

I've used it on Linux, Windows and OSX, and it just works.


>
> There is the Ada-wide search engine at
> http://www.adaic.org/ada-resources/ada-on-the-web/
> What if this search engine knew about some Ada specific markup which
> authors of packages could add to the web pages describing packages so that
> these tags inform the search engine about Ada packages, specifically?


The problem is that this does not help building complicated libraries /
projects. The fact that I can find project X does not necessarily make
it straightforward for me to use X, and moving across operating systems
this problem becomes pretty huge.

Stack and stack-like tools solve that problem.

I'm under no illusion that this is a simple task to mimic for Ada - I'm
just saying that it works exceedingly well for Haskell.

:o)

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