[mercury-users] library distribution?

Tyson Dowd trd at cs.mu.OZ.AU
Mon Dec 6 14:04:51 AEDT 1999


On 06-Dec-1999, Robert Ernst Johann JESCHOFNIK <rejj at cat.cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> Hello.
> 
> I was just wondering - does anyone think it would be worthwhile to have a
> distribution of just the mercury runtime and standard library available in
> binary format from the website? If/when the time comes that people start
> releasing software written in Mercury, I'm sure people won't want to have
> to download the whole compiler just to run some funky new program they
> got.

Yes.  I think you might need to:
	- stop using -rpath 
	- install different grades directly into /usr/lib 
	  (naming them differently)
before this would work very well.  

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