[m-rev.] for review: mercury installer script

[Ian MacLarty]

On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 03:35:34PM +1100, Julien Fischer wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 21 Nov 2005, Ian MacLarty wrote:
> 
> > There is an sample installer available from
> > http://www.cs.mu.oz.au/~maclarty/mercury-compiler-DEV-2005-11-21.msi.
> > It contains the grades asm_fast.gc, hlc.gc, asm_fast.gc.tr.debug and
> > asm_fast.gc.decldebug.
> >
> > Any feedback would be welcome.
> >
> Have you thought of perhaps splitting the debugger (and related grades)
> off into a separate package of its own?
> 

That's possible, though I'm not sure it's worth it.  
With only asm_fast.gc the installer is about 16MB.  
With all 4 grades mentioned above it's 26MB which isn't that big
(considering it expands to 170MB).

> > Note that the compiler hasn't worked with Windows 98 since we updated
> > the garbage collector (it segfaults).
> >
> Windows 98 support isn't important (aside from on your laptop)
> 

I agree, though it's hard to test the installer now, since I don't have
a clean windows machine to try it on, so I can't be sure it's not
depending on something which is installed on uranus.

> > mmc and mdb should work out of the box from the Windows command prompt.
> > mmake doesn't work and I haven't tested any of the other tools.
> >
> The only other really important one would be mprof.
> 

The .prof grades don't work on Cygwin and I haven't tested them on
MinGW.  mercury_profile.exe should work fine though.  I can just rename
it to mprof.exe for Windows.

Cheers,

Ian.
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