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Packages are relatively independent add-on libraries that may not be available in all installations. Packages are part of the source code releases of SWI-Prolog and may be enabled or disabled during the build.

See also Add-ons for extensions provided by the community that must be installed separately using pack_install/1.

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EricGT said (2020-07-13T09:53:29):

For additional libraries check

1) The SWI-Prolog library

As SWI-Prolog provides auto-loading, there is little difference between library predicates and built-in predicates.

2) Packs

Please be aware that packs are not moderated. Installing a pack does not execute code in the pack, but simply loading a library from the pack may execute arbitrary code.

A pack is an archive (.zip or .tgz) file that (minimally) contains, two items:

A subdirectory prolog
If the pack is installed, this directory is added to the Prolog library. This directory contains Prolog files using the extension .pl.
A file pack.pl
This file provides meta-data for the pack.==

Fabio Nakano said (2020-11-20T15:06:11):

Hello! I'm rather inexperient with Prolog. Skimming through the documentation I got confused with the definition of Packages, Packs, add ons, library,... The post above helped a lot.