svn commit: r549243 - /labs/juuso/README.txt

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Author: jukka
Date: Wed Jun 20 14:26:40 2007
New Revision: 549243

URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=rev&rev=549243
Log:
juuso: Updated the readme to mention the required XML parser component

Modified:
    labs/juuso/README.txt

Modified: labs/juuso/README.txt
URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/labs/juuso/README.txt?view=diff&rev=549243&r1=549242&r2=549243
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--- labs/juuso/README.txt (original)
+++ labs/juuso/README.txt Wed Jun 20 14:26:40 2007
@@ -54,13 +54,21 @@
 
 You need the Mercury compiler and related tools to compile the Juuso
 sources. You can download the latest stable Mercury release from
-http://www.cs.mu.oz.au/research/mercury/download/release.html. Note that
-the Mercury compiler is distributed under the GNU General Public License.
+http://www.cs.mu.oz.au/research/mercury/download/release.html. You
+need to get both the mercury-compiler and mercury-extras packages,
+as Juuso depends on the XML parser module included in mercury-extras.
 
-Binary distributions of the Mercury compiler are not available, so you
-need to compile it from the sources. See the INSTALL file included in
+Binary distributions of the Mercury compiler are not available (or they
+are too old, for example the current version available via "apt-get
+install mercury" on Ubuntu is too old for Juuso), so you need to compile
+the Mercury compiler from the sources. See the INSTALL file included in
 the Mercury source package for installation instructions, and note that
 it takes quite a while to compile the compiler!
+
+Note that the Mercury compiler is GPL software and there doesn't seem
+to be a linking exception like the one found in GCC, so it is unclear
+whether it will be possible to distribute compiled Mercury code under
+the Apache License.
 
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