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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
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Subject: Re: Adaforge?
Date: Thu, 3 May 2012 14:43:38 +0200
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On Thu, 03 May 2012 13:33:58 +0100, Stephen Leake wrote:

> Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org> writes:
> 
>> * As Dmitry well pointed out, there is a difference between
>>   hosting sources and hosting binaries.  My stance on this
>>   matter is probably well-known on this newsgroup.  In short,
>>   binaries belong in the general-purpose repositories of their
>>   target platforms; only this can give these binaries the
>>   visibility they deserve. IOW, the packages should be in the
>>   official Debian/Fedora/FreeBSD/Cygwin/Slackware/whatever
>>   repository if one exists.  
> 
> +1

One of the tasks of AdaForge might be exactly this, advertising Ada
libraries and applications in the corresponding communities (largely
unaware of Ada) and pushing them into the official repositories and
distributions.

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Dmitry A. Kazakov
http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de