Re: [m-users.] A list of Mercury resources

Volker Wysk <[email protected]> Fri, 18 Nov 2022 14:58:59 +0100

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.lang.mercury.general
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Am Freitag, dem 18.11.2022 um 13:46 +0100 schrieb Dirk Ziegemeyer:
> Hi Volker,
> 
> > Am 18.11.2022 um 12:25 schrieb Volker Wysk <[email protected]>:
> > 
> > Hi!
> > 
> > On the mercurylang.org website, unter Developent -> contributing, this is
> > written:
> > 
> > "If you've written some code using Mercury we'd love to find out about it.
> > If you think it might be in any way useful to other people, you might be
> > interested in making your code available for download. ... We are happy to
> > place it on the Mercury web and ftp sites for you."
> > 
> > I haven't found such a place on the Mercury web site. So I want to volunteer
> > to put one together (a list of Mercury resources). It could be placed in the
> > Github wiki, with a link from the mercurylang.org site to it.
> 
> There was an attempt to collect Mercury packages on a website some years ago. Is is still online and linked in this conversation:
> https://lists.mercurylang.org/archives/users/2019-August/008713.html

This doesn't look bad. It resembles a litte Haskell's Cabal system. I'm
wondering if this project is still alive. You say it's still online. I mean,
are mmc-get and the website still being maintained? How is the acceptance by
package authors? I've counted 45 packages, which don't include the 35
"extras" packages in the Mercury distribution. 

If so, it should be prominently mentioned on the mercurylang.org site.

A Mercury resources list could still make sense, because it also would
include resources other than software packages. Such as Fabrice Nicol's
docker packages of the Mercury compiler. And it could mention collections of
resources, such as the Documentation page at mercurylang.org or the
"Packages" website (which seems to have no good name) itself.

Cheers,
Volker

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