[mercury-users] Manarchive cannibalizing Mercury extras

[Julien Fischer]

On Mon, 5 Mar 2007, Ondrej Bojar wrote:

> Hi,
>
> before actually starting to eat your flesh, I would like to check your taste 
> preferences.
>
> I proposed a change to the lex interface (see one of my recent posts) and I 
> have a student who added some more predicates to his copy of the posix 
> library. I can do the lex change in mercury-extras directly, but I would 
> surely prefer the student of mine to extend posix library himself. Manarchive 
> is a good platform for a student to join.
>
> May I suggest *moving* posix (and possibly lex) to Manarchive, or you prefer 
> me to make an independent copy, renamed to 'manaposix' and 'manalex'? 
> Personally, I definitely prefer a single source for a single functionality 
> provider, but I don't want to break anything that works for you.

I am not in favour of moving anything from extras at the moment.
(Feel free to make a copy though.)  With regard to the posix binding
I think that the whole thing is in need of a major overhaul anyway.

Julien.
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