Alire (software)
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| Initial release | February 9, 2018 |
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| Stable release | 2.1.0
/ 4 March 2025 |
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| Website | https://alire.ada.dev |
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Alire (Ada LIbrary REpository) is both a catalogue of libraries for Ada and SPARK programming languages, and command line tool (alr) to obtain these libraries and incorporate them into own project. Created in 2018.[1] it's as of 2025 a working tool widely adopted by Ada community and recommended tool for starting with Ada[2].
Inspiration
Alire (alr) was heavily inspired by opam - the package manager for OCaml - and cargo - the package manager for Rust. First opam release of v0.1 took place on 26 June 2012[3], while cargo was first pre-released on 27 November 2014[4].
It's widely considered by the Rust community that cargo is a game changer for the ecosystem simplifying process of spinning up new projects and maintain their dependencies[opinion]. Creation of Alire follows the same principles of simplicity and great developer experience as cited package managers[5]
References
- ↑ "Release v0.1-AdaEurope2018 · alire-project/Alire". GitHub.
- ↑ "Installation | ada-lang.io, an Ada community site".
- ↑ "Release 0.1 · ocaml/Opam". GitHub.
- ↑ "Release v0.0.1-pre: Auto merge of #988 : Gekkio/Cargo/ZSH-run-normal-args, r=alexcrichton · rust-lang/Cargo". GitHub.
- ↑ https://sources.debian.org/data/main/a/alire/1.2.1-1/doc/2018-03.alr-draft.pdf [bare URL PDF]
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