[mercury-users] Any plans for a Mercury deb package (debian/ubuntu)?

[Parker Jones]

> From: pbone at csse.unimelb.edu.au
> On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 11:01:54AM +1200, Parker Jones wrote:
> > 
> > Thanks for your reply Paul.
> > 
> > > From: pbone at csse.unimelb.edu.au
> > > On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 12:14:15AM +1200, Parker Jones wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > Hello,
> > > > 
> > > > Are there any plans to release a Mercury debian package?  Last time I installed, it took several hours to compile which is a bit of a barrier to entry.  I wonder how many users would benefit from it being packaged?
> > > > 
> > > > Mercury has been packaged before, so perhaps it could be quite painless...
> > > > http://packages.ubuntu.com/dapper/mercury
> > > > http://packages.ubuntu.com/hardy/mercury
> > > >
> > > 
> > > I've started work on a Debian package, but unfortunatly I don't have much spare
> > > time to work on this.  I definitly agree that it would be useful.
> > > 
> > > See: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=379682
> > 
> > >From the above link I understand you want to create many debian packages (for the different grades).  This is perhaps useful but more complicated and time-consuming.  Wouldn't it be easier to simply package it exactly as it was before and get it out of the door.  Then when someone has time the packaging could be developed further.
> > 
> > Would really love to just type:
> >   apt-get install mercury
> 
> Yes.  I'd like separate packages, but I'd also like a meta package perhaps
> 'mercury-dev' which should include "everything you need to develop in Mercury".
> 
> Using separate packages in Debian is actually really easy.  The hard bit is
> making sure all of mercury's features are packaged correctly.  Therefore I'll
> start by disabling most but the very basic features and packaging only:
>     + The compiler (statically linked).
>     + Other utilities and scripts that the compiler needs.
>     + Mercury's equivalent of header files for the standard library.
>     + C header files for the runtime system.
>     + Static libraries for the runtime system and standard library.
>     + The same for the mdbcomp, browse and trace libraries which are linked
>       against even in no-debugging grades.
>     + All libraries would be built in a single grade, asm_fast.gc
> 
> Also, packing something 'exactly as it is' for Debian isn't really possible.
> Debian's policies are quite strict (and for good reason).  I've put in some
> effort already to make Mercury more con formant.
> 
> If you're interested in what I've done already point your i386 or amd64 lenny
> system at:
> http://www.mercury.csse.unimelb.edu.au/debian/

I gave it a try installing the deb under Ubuntu 10.04 but I couldn't satisfy the gcc-3.4 dependency :-(

> Thanks for your interest.

Thank you Paul for putting some time into packaging.

Cheers,
Parker
 		 	   		  
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