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From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
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Subject: Re: Ada package registry?
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2016 19:46:48 -0600
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"Alejandro R. Mosteo" <alejandro@mosteo.com> wrote in message 
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> Also, I think we're witnessing a new case of 'perfect is the enemy of the 
> good'. Should really a submitted library compile in every OS ever, with 
> every compiler ever, using the most complex dependencies there to be 
> found? Just mark what works and what doesn't and let the Ada masses (:-)) 
> improve on that.

No, but it should be crystal clear what assumptions it is making of 
compilers, target OSes, and hardware. That's where such a repository could 
be a significant improvement over the current situation. I don't want to 
start depending on stuff that only works in one situation, but it's pretty 
hard to tell that for most of the libraries that I've linked to. And even if 
you only want to work on Linux GNAT, you probably would want to avoid stuff 
that only works on Windows. And so on. Putting that into some sort of common 
format would be a worthwhile goal.

                                           Randy.