[m-dev.] [ddw at miscrit.be: mmc vs a_mmc vs mumc]

[Fergus Henderson]

On 22-Nov-2000, Peter Ross <peter.ross at miscrit.be> wrote:
> So a current proposal would be to add the following long names:
> 
>     mdb     = mercury_debug
>     mgnuc   = mercury_c_compile
>     ml      = mercury_link
>     mprof   = mercury_profile
>     mmc     = mercury_compile

Sounds good.

> The original names just then become forwarding scripts to the actual
> commands.

On Unix, links (either hard or symbolic) would be more appropriate.
On Windows, copies would be more efficient, since it avoids one
process creation.
I think Cygwin's `ln' command creates copies, so I think you could
just use `ln' and then it would work on both Unix and Windows.

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