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The Alire project

The Ada Library Repository, a package manager for the Ada language.

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Index format

https://github.com/alire-project/alire/blob/master/doc/catalog-format-spec.rst

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Glossary

Current meaning of terms that appear in the documentation and codebase.

  • Crate: An Alire-indexed bundle of code. Depending on context:
    • The name (and primary key) with which a bunch of software is packaged into Alire (e.g. alr get <crate>)
    • Everything that is fetched by alr (the contents in the folder resulting from e.g. alr get, or in a downloaded dependency -- See also "session"). Should be a mirror of a remote repository or zip file (any supported origin). folder).
  • Index: A collection of references to crates. Stored as toml files. Default community index found at https://github.com/alire-project/alire-index
  • Package: An Ada package.
  • Project file: A GPR project file within a crate. A crate may contain many of these (alr show).
  • Sandbox: A folder containing several crates, either dependencies of one another or not. What would be a Python virtualenv. NOT YET IMPLEMENTED.
  • Session: A folder that alr recognizes as containing a crate (and its dependencies). Either the result of alr get or alr init. Contains a top-level alire folder with all alr metadata:
    • Crate description file (crate-name.toml)
    • Aggregate GPR project for building (alr_build.gpr).
    • A folder containing dependencies (cache/deps).
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