[m-rev.] for review: library installation with `mmc --make'

[Simon Taylor]

On 27-Oct-2002, Fergus Henderson <fjh at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> On 07-Jul-2002, Simon Taylor <stayl at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> > 
> > compiler/options.m:
> > compiler/handle_options.m:
> > 	Add an option `--use-grade-subdirs', which causes
> > 	all grade-dependenent files to be placed in
> > 	`Mercury/<grade>/<ext>s' subdirectories, even
> > 	those files that are intended for use by the user.
> > 
> > 	`--use-grade-subdirs' is not documented because it
> > 	is only intended for use in library installation
> > 	with `mmc --make' (it doesn't work at all with Mmake).
> > 	Documenting it would require documenting (and setting
> > 	in stone) the layout of the `Mercury' directory, which
> > 	is probably a bad idea.
> 
> Why would documenting that require documenting the layout of the
> Mercury directory?

Because files which the user needs to be able to find (e.g. executables)
are placed in subdirectories.

Simon.
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