[m-rev.] for review: mercury installer script

[Julien Fischer]

On Tue, 22 Nov 2005, Ian MacLarty wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 03:35:34PM +1100, Julien Fischer wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, 21 Nov 2005, Ian MacLarty wrote:
> >
> > > There is an sample installer available from
> > > http://www.cs.mu.oz.au/~maclarty/mercury-compiler-DEV-2005-11-21.msi.
> > > It contains the grades asm_fast.gc, hlc.gc, asm_fast.gc.tr.debug and
> > > asm_fast.gc.decldebug.
> > >
> > > Any feedback would be welcome.
> > >
> > Have you thought of perhaps splitting the debugger (and related grades)
> > off into a separate package of its own?
> >
>
> That's possible, though I'm not sure it's worth it.
> With only asm_fast.gc the installer is about 16MB.
> With all 4 grades mentioned above it's 26MB which isn't that big
> (considering it expands to 170MB).
>

There are other grades you might want to install by default:
asm_fast.gc.tr and hlc.par.gc for example.

> > > Note that the compiler hasn't worked with Windows 98 since we updated
> > > the garbage collector (it segfaults).
> > >
> > Windows 98 support isn't important (aside from on your laptop)
> >
>
> I agree, though it's hard to test the installer now, since I don't have
> a clean windows machine to try it on, so I can't be sure it's not
> depending on something which is installed on uranus.
>

> > > mmc and mdb should work out of the box from the Windows command prompt.
> > > mmake doesn't work and I haven't tested any of the other tools.
> > >
> > The only other really important one would be mprof.
> >
>
> The .prof grades don't work on Cygwin.

I'll take a look at that.

Cheers,
Julien.
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