"Thomas Løcke" <thomas@12boo.net> wrote in message 
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> The problem is that this does not help building complicated libraries /
> projects. The fact that I can find project X does not necessarily make
> it straightforward for me to use X, and moving across operating systems
> this problem becomes pretty huge.

Well, for the sorts of projects I'm interested in, finding them is 90% of 
the battle. Building an Ada library almost never requires more than dumping 
the source code into a directory and running the compiler's build tool 
(gnatmake, corder, or whatever). If it's more complicated than that, 
someone's overthought the whole thing and I most likely will forget that 
library. (After all, the reason I want an Ada library in the first place is 
so that I can fix it, include it in the source managed by Ada tools, and the 
like. If that's impractical, it's not helping.)

I realize that when libraries are bindings on third-party components, the 
situation gets more complex. But that also goes against my overall goal (if 
possible, write it or get it in Ada, and if not, try to go without).

                                  Randy.