Brussels / 2 & 3 February 2019

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The AZip Archive Manager: a full-Ada Open-Source Portable Application


If you open the AZip application with a can opener, it will look like an Ada programmer's paradise: you'll find Ada on all levels:

  1. the AZip user interface (UI framework specific);
  2. the AZip abstract application layer (platform-independent);
  3. the archive and data compression library (Zip-Ada);
  4. the user interface framework (GWindows);
  5. the run-time library (GNAT's).

We will quantify this.

Portability is matched on three different definitions of the word:

  1. platform-independence for the abstracted part and the Zip-Ada library - no porting effort at all there;
  2. you can easily port the user interface layer since most of the job is done in the abstracted part;
  3. no installation needed: the version built on GWindows is contained in a single executable file and can be run from a USB stick; it can be even run in a stealth mode, without writing settings to the registry of the host system.

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