Implementing a Build Manager in Ada

A build manager is a tool used to automate the building, testing and delivery of software projets. Porion is a new build manager that was first presented at the FOSDEM 2022 event in the "Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment Developer Room" [1] and in the "Ada Developer Room" [2]. This paper is a summary of these two presentations and it focuses on the complexity of designing a build manager. It highlights some security issues that apply to a build manager and its implementation. It explains the overall architecture that was chosen and the reason of the choice. Finally it presents the Ada generation tools that have been used in this project.