Re: Adaforge?

["Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>]

On Sun, 29 Apr 2012 10:44:36 -0400, Stephen Leake wrote:

> mockturtle <framefritti@gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> Recently, a post on the LinkedIn group "Ada Programming Language,"
>> made me think that an ingredient that can help the spreading of a
>> programming language is a variety of libraries. I confess :-) that
>> sometimes I use Ruby and in the past I worked also in PERL (but only
>> with version 4! :-) and I found it very convenient to have access to
>> many libraries (of variegate quality, to be honest) ready to use.
> 
> Debian is one candidate for that;

I bet that most Ada users are under Windows. The resource must be
platform-agnostic.

> it enforces compatibility among the
> packages and compiler, making installation simpler. It already has all
> the rest of the infrastructure (mailing lists, web sites, etc); possibly
> not as user-friendly as some others.

I think that GPS might become a better vehicle than ugly deb-packages. It
is fairly simple and, most importantly, portable to integrate a custom
library into GPS/GPRBuild. And it is 100% Ada (It is really no fun to fight
dpkg-deb or, for that matter, rpmbuild). The major obstacle for
GPS/GPRBuild is that they are not always available.

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Dmitry A. Kazakov
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