[mercury-users] mea-culpa

[Paul Bone]

On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 11:22:06AM -0300, Robert Shiplett wrote:
> I am wrong.
> 
> A refresh of Win Explore on XP shows that non-prof grades did install first
> 
> So the INSTALL file destined for a first-time user with no access to
> binaries might better say
> 
> First run
> 
>   ./configure -h
> or
>   ./configure --help
> 

Everyone farmiliar with building software from source already knows about
./configure --help

> Consider a first install with
>  ./configure --disable-most-grades
> [ follow by other practical suggestions if have less than 2Gb free or
> slow drive or remote drive or need for use of single core during build
> 
> Or some such.
> 
> An alternative is to have a
>   README-first-time-user.txt

We have an FAQ section about installation here:

http://www.mercury.csse.unimelb.edu.au/information/doc-latest/mercury_faq/Installing.html#Installing

Please help us by contributing to it.

Regarding --disable-most-grades, it's best to work out which grades you might
actually use and install only those.  It's just much quicker.


> A language which few use is likely to be a language which few
> appreciate or acknowledge - but I grant that both Prologia (and for a
> time, also PDC.dk ) ceased to even mention Prolog on their home pages;
>  when I last looked, the new masters of Prologia had no mention of CLP
> or Prolog IV.  Then came the Prolog to any XML document. Oh vey.  A
> Chaucerian prologue, anyone?
> 
> Said as one who works in the Curl lang (www.curl.com) in the world of
> cURL (the boys from MIT failed to defend their own spin-off trademark
> - go figger.)

What are you talking about?  What does Prolog have to do with installing
Mercury?


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