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On 12/04/2011 04:19 AM, Natasha Kerensikova wrote:
>
> sorry for spamming you again, and for the arrogance of thinking anyone
> might possibly want to use my code, but I'm wondering what is the best
> way to distribute a library (once it's ready for release) written in
> Ada.

If your library is intended to be portable, then source is really the only 
option. You can't include information about every possible compiler, and should 
assume that those using the compiler know how to compile a source library.

The PragmARCs include a null program that withs all the packages in the library. 
Most compilers have a way to compile everything needed for a program, so that 
serves as a kind of cross-compiler build mechanism.

-- 
Jeff Carter
"Ada has made you lazy and careless. You can write programs in C that
are just as safe by the simple application of super-human diligence."
E. Robert Tisdale
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