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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
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Subject: Re: Ada package registry?
Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2016 08:35:40 +0100
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On 2016-01-29 23:27, Randy Brukardt wrote:
>
> 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.

There is PAD http://pad.asp-software.org but it is not very suitable for 
software libraries.

> (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...)

I think that most users need more than raw source code. For example, AWS 
and GtkAda are much too complex to install manually.

Any repository to be useful must provide installers for sources and the 
run-time for an exploding number of targets.

It also must maintain dependencies between packages and tests.

Not to happen, in short.

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Dmitry A. Kazakov
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