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Subject: Re: IBM Acquires Rational Ada
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"Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" <ve3wwg@cogeco.ca> wrote in message  

> In other words, we need some Ada package distros to do the
> same thing that Linux distros do. Make it easier to install and
> maintain all of those optional Ada packages that do exist.
> 
> Any volunteers? ;-)

this is such a group: http://www.gnuada.org/alt.html I do not know
how active the group is still.