From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!mx02.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!gegeweb.org!news.ecp.fr!news.jacob-sparre.dk!loke.jacob-sparre.dk!pnx.dk!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Randy Brukardt" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada package registry? Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2016 16:27:39 -0600 Organization: JSA Research & Innovation Message-ID: References: <02241ec4-0f95-4f63-9abc-092f167eb59e@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: rrsoftware.com X-Trace: loke.gir.dk 1454106460 6646 24.196.82.226 (29 Jan 2016 22:27:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@jacob-sparre.dk NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2016 22:27:40 +0000 (UTC) X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.5931 X-RFC2646: Format=Flowed; Original X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.6157 Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:29287 Date: 2016-01-29T16:27:39-06:00 List-Id: 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...)