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!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada package registry? Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2016 19:25:02 +0100 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: References: <02241ec4-0f95-4f63-9abc-092f167eb59e@googlegroups.com> <56af17b7$0$301$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> <56b06eb8$0$301$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> <6141d702-767a-4a6f-b2e0-115664139f21@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: LNA1TkTuMxfwTHzeJdi6nA.user.gioia.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.5.1 X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:29321 Date: 2016-02-02T19:25:02+01:00 List-Id: On 2016-02-02 15:51, jsquirek@gmail.com wrote: > I think the biggest problem facing the community is the actual > portability of many of the most useful libraries and not on locating > them. I can't tell you the amount of times I've tried to get Ada > working with SQL on Windows and failed. What the problem? ODBC bindings work perfectly well under Windows. > The bottom line is Make is unreliable on Windows and Autoconfig is > unusable. Yes, which is why they never should be used. Nor they needed in order to distribute Ada libraries. > Having a version of ASIS, matreshka, or AWS that built with > GPR alone would be a huge selling point. I never used any of, but I wonder how they happen not to provide gpr files? IMO no Ada library should come without it, as GNAT is de-facto standard Ada compiler. -- Regards, Dmitry A. Kazakov http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de