Re: Ada package registry?

["Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>]

<olivier.henley@gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:02241ec4-0f95-4f63-9abc-092f167eb59e@googlegroups.com...
>For sure, at the moment, Ada initiatives are not gathered properly.

Definitely false. I've been maintaining lists of sources of Ada packages and 
the Ada-wide search engine ever since we took over maintenance of AdaIC. For 
specific requirements, definitely try the Ada-wide search engine. 
(http://www.adaic.org/ada-resources/ada-on-the-web/). If there's an 
Ada-related site that's not included in that, it's either because the owner 
asked us not to include it, or we don't know about it at all. (In the latter 
case, send a message to news@adaic.com and it will get included in a future 
listing.)

(I don't recommend using the raw listing of libraries for searching for 
particular libraries, simply because that doesn't look inside of the various 
repositories [those are listed as single listing], the search engine does.)

> For example, were you aware of the existence of a lean Ada library for 
> generating UUIDs?
> No you did not and maybe this is why you did your own 'kind-ish' version 
> at your job or
> on your free time to fulfill the requirements of another project.

When I stuck "UUID" into the Ada-wide search engine, I got 6 (!) hits. Not 
sure that any of them are relevant, but if not that's because there is no 
such library that's ever been announced here or sent to AdaIC. In which 
case, it doesn't exist (practically). [The primary reason I read this 
newsgroup daily is to pick up announcements for AdaIC.]

                               Randy.

P.S. I'm skeptical that any such repository would be kept very current. 
After the organizers initially populate it, I think it's not very likely 
that much updating would get done. After all, all library authors have to do 
to get on the AdaIC is send us a link -- I do all of the rest of the work. 
Yet hardly anyone does that. To have some sort of automated repository would 
require authors to do more: mirror their work somewhere they're not used to, 
or write a complex description for the repository, or more. (What are the 
odds that such a repository could figure out how to pull files from the 
version control on RRSoftware.Com and Ada-Auth.org, for instance? It could 
surely be done, but it would require some custom coding and I can't see how 
that would happen. In the absence of that, one is clearly going to have a 
subset of offerings...)