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Alire 2022 Update

Published:19 December 2022Publication History
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The Alire Package Manager released its first stable version in 2021 and, since then, it has seen continued improvement and new features. Herein we present the latest major features that have been added for the benefit of Ada developers, which include toolchain installation, a publishing assistant, generation of configuration code, and a so-called pin system for concurrent development of multiple projects. We also take a look at the status of its ecosystem of available libraries.

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