Re: How to nicely distribute a simple Ada library?

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

On Thu, 08 Dec 2011 16:53:16 +0100, Yannick Duch�ne (Hibou57) wrote:

> Le Sun, 04 Dec 2011 13:06:50 +0100, Dmitry A. Kazakov  
> <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> a �crit:
>> Fedora and Debian packaging systems is an utter mess.
> For easier creation of Debian/Ubuntu package, one may lool at Debreate
> http://debreate.sourceforge.net/
> I don't know it in deep, but had a look at it some times ago, and seems  
> OK.

OK for what? Do you believe that this tool will create you binary, source,
developing, debug packages with the corresponding Debian Ada policies, all
dependencies, test, samples, documentation subprojects etc?

If I were 20 years younger and had nothing to do, I would probably extend
the gpr files to support platform-specific deployment targets, letting
*.deb, *.rpm, *.msi files generated from *.gpr.

Just compare gpr and make-files. See why gpr is so useful and makefile is
such an awful mess? This equally applies to debian/control or rpm spec
files. At the project description level, there is not so many things left
to change. The corresponding policy rules actually define almost
everything. If grpbuild or gnatmake knew these rules, it could generate
deployment packages automatically.

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Regards,
Dmitry A. Kazakov
http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de