Re: Design discussion for Ada "package manager" (online library)

["Alejandro R. Mosteo" <alejandro@mosteo.com>]

On 19/02/16 18:18, Tero Koskinen wrote:
> 19.2.2016, 4.11, Randy Brukardt wrote:
>> "Shark8" <onewingedshark@gmail.com> wrote in message
>> news:b27acb57-59dc-49f6-afa0-f13ebc9a7462@googlegroups.com...
>>> We've started to disscuss the design of an Ada project-manager. We'd
>>> love
>>> more involvement from the community, as I think thiss could be a
>>> chance to
>>> really show off Ada's strengths.
>>>
>>> https://github.com/mosteo/alire/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue
>>
>> I think I said more than enough on the topic here, and I need to do more
>> work and less community time. So I won't be joining your discussion now.
>> Hopefully someone will package up some of my thoughts for your
>> discussion.
>>
>>                                          Randy.
>
> I think one "problem" Ada community has, is the endless discussions
> about what should be done.
>
> I like the "Shut up and hack" mentality of (Open)BSD and how *BSD people
> do stuff instead of just discussing about it.

Linus dixit: https://lkml.org/lkml/2000/8/25/132

> For example, check Synth, package manager for *BSDs, written by John
> Marino using Ada:
> https://github.com/jrmarino/synth

That project looks great, thanks for the pointer.

>
> Yours,
>   Tero
>
>