[m-dev.] Determining which grades an installed Mercury compiler supports

[Zoltan Somogyi]

On Thu, 19 Jul 2018 10:54:44 +1000 (AEST), Julien Fischer <jfischer at opturion.com> wrote:
> > We could bake into the compiler the list of the grades that were configured
> > to be installed at the time the compiler executable was itself created.
> > However, that would still be vulnerable to parts of the install directory
> > being overwritten later.
> 
> I spent a fair amount of time *removing* such "baking in" around a
> decade ago; I'm not particularly inclined to add it back.  (The idea
> back then, was that we could have tool that would compile and install
> additional library grades on demand.)

For the reason mentioned in my second sentence above, I am not
advocating for it either.

Zoltan.