Alejandro R. Mosteo
Alejandro R. Mosteo is a professor at Centro Universitario de la Defensa, Zaragoza, Spain, since 2011. He received the Ph.D. in 2010 from the Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain. He has been a postgraduate researcher at Laboratoire d'Analyse et d'Architecture des Systèmes (LAAS), Toulouse, France. He is a member of the Robotics, Perception, and Real‐Time group at Instituto de Investigación en Ingeniería de Aragón. He became a member of the steering committee of the Technical Committee on Multi‐Robot Systems of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society in 2015. His Ada advocacy career dates back to 2006 with his affiliation to the Ada‐Spain society for the promotion of the Ada language. Recently, he has joined the editorial board of the quarterly Ada User Journal as News Editor in 2019. In 2020 he has been appointed coordinator of the Ada working group within the Spanish standardization body (UNE). His research pursuits include multi‐robot cooperation, decentralized algorithms, and autonomous air vehicles.
Session
Ada is a venerable language with a long and proven trajectory mainly in embedded and critical systems. With a small but close-knit Open Source community, Ada has lacked a package manager until recently. Alire (Ada Library Repository, https://alire.ada.dev/) is a package manager for the language that supports the GNAT Ada compiler, available through the FSF as a GCC frontend.
This lighting talk aims to introduce Alire to the family of package managers and give a few highlights of its characteristics.