[m-dev.] for review: add readline support to mdb

[Peter Ross]

On 24-Mar-1999, Fergus Henderson <fjh at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> On 22-Mar-1999, Tyson Dowd <trd at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> > On 22-Mar-1999, Fergus Henderson <fjh at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> > > Estimated hours taken: 10
> > > 
> > > Add GNU readline support to the debugger.
> > 
> > Just one question first -- why include readline in the source distribution?
> 
> Well, the idea is to make it easier for the user to install things,
> since they only need to install one package, rather than having to install
> two. 
> 
> It does increase the size of the source distribution a bit
> (by about 600k compressed), but that seems like a worthwhile
> price to pay for ease of installation, I think... no?
> 

I would disagree.  Readline is a seperate entity that we have made no
changes to for it to work with the Mercury compiler.  Also I would
imagine that on most systems Mercury is installed readline would already
be there.  If you have gcc installed it is pretty likely that gdb is
installed, so in the end I think it will be more trouble then it is
worth.

And then there is the problem with existing versions of readline.

Pete.