Re: Adaforge?

["Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>]

On Wed, 02 May 2012 07:37:11 +0200, Yannick Duch�ne (Hibou57) wrote:

> Le Wed, 02 May 2012 00:56:02 +0200, Patrick  
> <patrick@spellingbeewinnars.org> a �crit:

>> If we had an AdaForge site that was/had:
>>
>> -A modern look and feel
>> -Highlighted projects that were not mission critical/military
>> -Highlighted Ada's usefulness on multicore machines
>> -highlighted a not-for-profit effort
>> -highlighted projects that were mixed with other languages
>> -highlight the open source compiler
> 
> More easy to request than easy to do (especially if you assert profit is  
> bad).

Yes, this is where the community is expected to show its strength or
weakness.

> I don't expect a miracle from an AdaForge or anything similar.  
> Better a news site with references to existing projects, and there are  
> already sites like this.

To be useful the site should provide a platform for distribution of binary
and ready-to-use releases. People have no time and desire in checking out
sources from CVS.

A great help could be a *maintained* yum and apt downstream repositories
and some equivalent for Windows.

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Dmitry A. Kazakov
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