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From: Victor Porton <porton@narod.ru>
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Subject: Re: How to deal with Ada libraries?
Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2017 23:24:54 +0200
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Spiros Bousbouras wrote:

> On Sun, 29 Oct 2017 20:12:45 +0200
> Victor Porton <porton@narod.ru> wrote:
>> I decided to use Dmitry A. Kazakov's Simple Components library in my big
>> serious project (which is to contain a command line utility and a HTTP(S)
>> proxy server).
> 
> Is your project something which will be running on your own computers
> or is it something that users will download and compile on their own
> computer ?

It is public open source free software which is to run on multiple PCs and 
servers.

Yes, the users may compile my code.

>> I am to choose of three variants:
>> 
>> 1. create a Makefile to build the Simple Components library and link to
>> this library;
>> 
>> 2. don't create a library but just include Dmitry's files as a part of my
>> source;
>> 
>> 3. just install the Debian package built by Dmitry.
>> 
>> The "3" variant has the deficiency that because the Dmitry's package is
>> not in Debian, this may cause difficulty in the future to make my own
>> Debian package of my software.
> 
> What does it take to get a package accepted to the official Debian
> distribution ?
> 
>> Please help me to choose the best variant.
-- 
Victor Porton - http://portonvictor.org