[m-users.] A list of Mercury resources

[Ondrej Bojar]

Dear all,

sadly, I am far from Mercury for the last decade, but I also started a tiny collection of external contributions.

It is still online but technically dead now:

https://manarchive.sourceforge.net/

Best,
  Ondrej.

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Volker Wysk" <post at volker-wysk.de>
> To: "M McDonough" <foolkingcrown at gmail.com>, "users" <users at lists.mercurylang.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, 23 November, 2022 15:16:51
> Subject: Re: [m-users.] A list of Mercury resources

> Hi.
> 
> Should I interpret the lack of answers from the Mercury team as they don't
> like my proposition?
> 
> Cheers,
> Volker
> 
> Am Samstag, dem 19.11.2022 um 13:05 +0100 schrieb Volker Wysk:
>> Hi!
>> 
>> Am Samstag, dem 19.11.2022 um 00:07 -0800 schrieb M McDonough:
>> > > On 18 Nov 2022, at 13:58, Volker Wysk <post at volker-wysk.de> wrote:
>> > > 
>> > > This doesn't look bad. It resembles a litte Haskell's Cabal system. I'm
>> > > wondering if this project is still alive. You say it's still online. I
>> > > mean,
>> > > are mmc-get and the website still being maintained? How is the
>> > > acceptance by
>> > > package authors? I've counted 45 packages, which don't include the 35
>> > > "extras" packages in the Mercury distribution.
>> > > 
>> > > If so, it should be prominently mentioned on the mercurylang.org site.
>> > > 
>> > > A Mercury resources list could still make sense, because it also would
>> > > include resources other than software packages. Such as Fabrice Nicol's
>> > > docker packages of the Mercury compiler. And it could mention
>> > > collections of
>> > > resources, such as the Documentation page at mercurylang.org or the
>> > > "Packages" website (which seems to have no good name) itself.
>> > > 
>> > > Cheers,
>> > > Volker
>> > 
>> > Honestly I forgot all about this (even though it has some of my very
>> > old stuff in it). I definitely think we could do better about
>> > gathering Mercury resources, most of my newer (and less crappy) stuff
>> > isn't on that list and isn't even on github (I mostly moved to OSDN
>> > over the last three years). I had expected that would hurt
>> > discoverability, but honestly I'm unsure anyone has really used any of
>> > my Mercury code from either site so I'm unconvinced that has mattered.
>> 
>> You aren't the creator of mmc-get and that website, are you? (The Github
>> name is "jrfondren".) Yes, we could and should do better about gathering
>> Mercury resources. About community-oriented things.
>> 
>> Maybe a simple web page with a list of resources would be the best for now.
>> As long as it is linked prominently on the mercurylang.org site.
>> 
>> That "Packages" website seems to be abandoned. And there's no way to list
>> the registered packages in the browser. It looks like the site hasn't
>> exceeded the initial state.
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> Volker
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Ondrej Bojar (mailto:obo at cuni.cz / bojar at ufal.mff.cuni.cz)
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