On 19/11/2024 10:53, Steve Litt wrote:
> First, this is NOT about the Ada language, it's about installing Ada
> related software on Devuan. I'm posting this because I can't get Alire,
> Ada's package manager/builder, to install on Void Linux so I need to
> make a VM with another distro and Devuan's a pretty darn good distro.
>
> So has anybody here installed Alire on Devuan?

I use alire on Devuan every day and have had 0 problems.

I know "https://www.getada.dev" made some efforts to get alire running on Alpine
with musl libc but I'm not sure if it has been successful or not. Some crates
require system packages or lib installation, so Devuan is the much easier choice
even when using Alire. Alire is just a single alr binary. It is in the devuan
repo but I would use version 2 from "https://alire.ada.dev".

There is also a matrix chat using the element app specifically for alire. I'm
not much of a fan of element chats but it is here.

"https://app.gitter.im/#/room/#ada-lang_Alire:gitter.im"