[m-dev.] Drop SICStus & NU-Prolog support?

[Peter Ross]

On 21-Nov-1998, Fergus Henderson <fjh at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> The support for SICStus and NU-Prolog in the current Mercury system
> will cause maintenance difficulties.  There have already been
> a couple of bug reports relating to problems in 0.8 caused by the
> SICStus support -- one a bug in our binary distribution, another
> being an incompatibility introduced by SICStus 3.7 that breaks our
> code. 
> 
> The Prolog support already has a few problems that are noted
> in the "Caveats" section in the user's guide.  In addition,
> as we take more advantage of features like type classes and functions,
> the Prolog support will work less and less.
> 
> Since we now have a working Mercury debugger, there seems to be
> little point in compiling Mercury programs using a Prolog system.
> Therefore I propose that we drop the existing support for SICStus
> and NU-Prolog.
> 
> Comments?
> 
Sounds good to me.

Pete.