[m-dev.] I have been making Debian packages

[Paul Bone]

On Sun, Mar 26, 2017 at 11:18:31AM +0000, Sebastian Godelet wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> > 
> > > sudo apt-get mercury-devel resolved fine.
> > >
> > > Are the packaging scripts/instructions open-source?
> > 
> > They will be,  I'll publish them either later this evening or tomorrow.
> > 
> > Whatever you do you may still run into problems with Ubuntu on Windows.
> > At YesLogic (where we use Mercury commercially) we have received some
> > reports that Mercury programs crash (we're using the hlc.par.gc grade FWIW).
> > We have simply instructed our customers to download the windows version
> > if they're running windows.  We suspect that Microsoft's emulation simply
> > isn't perfect.
> > 
> 
> Yes it is still in beta I think. Maybe the next Windows 10 update version will improve on that part.
> I'll try this new package with docker next, that should work much better.

> Having a pre-packaged version vastly improves support for CI tools such as Jenkins so one doesn't have bootstrap Mercury during a full CI rebuild,
> Let's say a service such as Travis CI works best with pre-build packages.
> Now the only trouble is that 14.01.1 is too old to compile a DEV compiler.
> I guess there will eventually be a next release :-)

Definitely!  That's the main reason why I built it.  So that at YesLogic we
can setup CI or other testing things easily.

Yes, 14.01.1 is quite old, I'll be making packages based on a recent ROTD
also.  I don't know when there will be a release, we started to plan one,
maybe 12 months ago, but I guess everyone forgot or lost interest.

All the best.


-- 
Paul Bone
http://paul.bone.id.au