[mercury-users] Problem installing Mercury on openSUSE 11.1

[Paul Bone]

On Mon, Feb 02, 2009 at 06:25:14AM -0500, Peter C. Chapin wrote:
> Julien Fischer wrote:
> 
> > See thread on mercury-users here:
> > <http://www.mercury.csse.unimelb.edu.au/mailing-lists/mercury-users/mercury-users.200811/0018.html>
> >
> >
> > In particular, my post here:
> > <http://www.mercury.csse.unimelb.edu.au/mailing-lists/mercury-users/mercury-users.200811/0023.html>
> >
> >
> > may be helpful if you are using gcc 4.2 or 4.3.
> 
> Thanks! Your instructions worked for me and I got the system installed
> without error. I am able to compile and run simple programs (all I've
> tried so far), so I think I'm off and running.
> 
> > There are have been a lot of changes since 0.13.1, (see the list here
> > for further information:
> > <http://www.mercury.csse.unimelb.edu.au/download/rotd.html>).
> >
> > If you do choose to use the ROTD then you should also keep
> > the following caveat in mind:
> >
> >     Please treat ROTDs with caution -- although they are often very
> > useful
> >     and reasonably stable, they are not widely tested, and may have
> >     unfinished features and rough edges
> 
> Yes, I understand. Normally I don't use beta or development software
> unless I'm involved in some way in its development (even if just
> testing). Considering that I'm a Mercury newbie just learning the
> language it seems like I should stick with the official release.
> 
> On the other hand it seems like it has been a while since the last
> official release. So this leads me to wonder if a new release is in the
> works and what the time frame on it might be. It sounds like there have
> been a lot of improvements since 0.13.1, and it would be nice to have
> them captured in a stable release.
> 

We've been trying to put pressure on one-another internally to organise
a new release, however it is a fair bit of work.  We also have a number
of open bugs.


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