Stephane Carrez

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> As I said in the other PR, this should probably be generated by CLIC directly. See my proof of concept: [alire-project/clic#12](https://github.com/alire-project/clic/pull/12) Ok. I'm not convinced this is the good...

The biggest issue today is the availability of a recent compiler and recent gprbuild. A user must first build and install a recent gprbuild (it works). Then, the gcc6-aux will...

I have no visibility of Ada support on FreeBSD. The gcc6-aux is still a separate compiler and package installation. I don't forecast any change soon but I may be wrong....

FYI, gcc6-aux has been removed in Feb 2022 from FreeBSD ports. Now Alire builds with gcc 12.1 on FreeBSD 13.1 if you manage to have the gcc 12 compiler running...

I've managed to hack alire and make the `-f` option being taken into account. It works like a charm :-)

The `--force` option works for that purpose so there is no need to keep this opened.

LOL! I've found the reason and it is caused by a bug in `Ada.Directories` (filed in 2014): * [Bug 63222](https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=63222) - Ada.Directories.Delete_File refuses to delete dangling symlinks * [Bug 56055](https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=56055)...

I guess this is because the curl library was not found when you ran the `.configure` script. If you look at `ada-util/utilada_conf.gpr`, you should see a set of lines, if...

Ada Util 2.4.1 builds fine on Debian 11 which is using gcc 10.2.1. The `Util.Properties` package is one of the oldest package provided by the library and it has always...

Sorry for the delay, I've not seen your question... For dynamic JSON, the library uses the `Util.Beans.Objects.Object` type which is capable of holding various types such as integer, long, dates,...