[m-users.] Mercury Development Docker, and Bisecting Debugger?

Prolog Rules prologrules at gmail.com
Sat Dec 18 01:18:39 AEDT 2021


Hello! Is there a docker container/image I can pull so I can work with an
already set-up Mercury compiler? I'm trying to play with mercury and I
remember setting up the mercury compiler on another computer a few years
ago was an arduous process. I downloaded the source code today and saw a
README.docker file so I assume it's possible there is a docker container
(or would it be image in this case sorry I'm still new to docker
terminology) that probably has a mercury compiler and dev tools already set
up? I'm eager to test out Mercury for its own sake and I also really want
to try out Mercury's bisecting debugger. I always wanted to try that since
I saw Michael Hendricks' 2014 Strange Loop talk "Production Prolog". Also
I'm curious if I should expect to be underwhelmed by the bisecting
debugger. I ask because if it's half as good as he describes then I'm
surprised that besides Hendrick's description of it in that talk then
literally the only documentation of it I can find on the internet is the
two sentences in section 7.11.6.4 of the Mercury User's Guide. To me a
bisecting debugger (which I have not actually tried yet, just been excited
about) seems like a "killer app" so-to-speak. Thank you! Robert
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