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

[Tyson Dowd]

On 23-Nov-2000, David Glen JEFFERY <dgj at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> Perhaps we could take the same approach as CVS and have one top-level command
> called `mercury' which just invokes whichever command is specified by its
> first argument. ie:
> 	mdb     = mercury debug
> 	mgnuc   = mercury c_compile
> 	ml      = mercury link
> 	mprof   = mercury profile
> 	mmc     = mercury compile

This would be easy and fine on Unix based systems, but process creation
takes a long time under Windows.

We would have to be very careful not to create any extra processes while
running these commands (which I guess is quite possible if you just
source the file rather than executing it).

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