PROM - A PROLOG "MAKE" TOOL FOR BUILDING LARGE SYSTEMS
            Written by Thilo Kielmann, Darmstadt University.
                  Fetched on the 4th of September, 1992
                  Shelved on the 4th of September, 1992


This entry comes in three directories: this top-level one, search, and
manual. The user manual is in TeX, in manual/manual.tex. It depends on
some auxiliary files. The main program file is in this directory,
startup.pl. I have not yet tried running PROM, so I cannot give detailed
advice on portability.


PROM (version 1.0) is a make tool fully implemented in PROLOG. It offers
new degrees of flexibility allowing maintenance of large software
systems. For a write-up, see
    Thilo Kielmann. "Using Prolog for Software System Maintenance". In
    Proceedings of the First International Conference on the Practical
    Application of Prolog, volume 1, London, UK, April 1992.

PROM is designed as a stand-alone tool with a command line interface. It
is based on SWI-Prolog, but should be portable to other Prolog systems.

Please send any questions, comments, bug reports and good ideas concerning
PROM directly to the author:

    Thilo Kielmann
    Technical University of Darmstadt
    Inst. of Theoretical Computer Science
    Alexanderstr. 10
    D W 6100 Darmstadt
    Germany

    email: kielmann@iti.informatik.th-darmstadt.de


This version of PROM comes by anonymous ftp from ftp.th-darmstadt.de, in
directory /pub/programming/languages/prolog/prologmake, and I took it,
following Thilo's offer, on 4th September 1992.



CHECKED ON EDINBURGH-COMPATIBLE (POPLOG) PROLOG : no.


PORTABILITY : looks pretty good. You will need 'record'. Numerous
operators are declared, using the 0-1200 range of precedences.


INTERNAL DOCUMENTATION :  There is a good user manual (in TeX).
Predicates are commented with a brief statement of their purpose.