diff --git a/packages/meld/Makefile.in b/packages/meld/Makefile.in
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+#
+# default base directory for YAP installation
+#
+ROOTDIR = @prefix@
+#
+# where the binary should be
+#
+BINDIR = $(ROOTDIR)/bin
+#
+# where YAP should look for binary libraries
+#
+LIBDIR=@libdir@/Yap
+#
+# where YAP should look for architecture-independent Prolog libraries
+#
+SHAREDIR=$(ROOTDIR)/share
+#
+#
+# You shouldn't need to change what follows.
+#
+INSTALL=@INSTALL@
+INSTALL_DATA=@INSTALL_DATA@
+INSTALL_PROGRAM=@INSTALL_PROGRAM@
+srcdir=@srcdir@
+YAP_EXTRAS=@YAP_EXTRAS@ 
+
+MELD_PROGRAMS= \
+	$(srcdir)/meldtd.yap \
+	$(srcdir)/meldc.yap \
+	$(srcdir)/meldi.yap \
+	$(srcdir)/meldp.yap
+
+MELD_EXAMPLES= \
+	$(srcdir)/maxtemp.meld \
+	$(srcdir)/graph0.meld \
+	$(srcdir)/graph1.meld \
+	$(srcdir)/graph2.meld \
+	$(srcdir)/graph3.meld
+
+PROGRAMS= \
+	$(srcdir)/meld.yap \
+	$(MELD_PROGRAMS)
+
+all:
+
+install: $(PROGRAMS) $(EXAMPLES)
+	mkdir -p $(DESTDIR)$(SHAREDIR)/Yap
+	mkdir -p $(DESTDIR)$(SHAREDIR)/Yap/meld
+	$(INSTALL_DATA) $(srcdir)/meld.yap $(DESTDIR)$(SHAREDIR)/Yap
+	for p in $(MELD_PROGRAMS); do $(INSTALL_DATA) $$p $(DESTDIR)$(SHAREDIR)/Yap/meld; done
+	for p in $(MELD_EXAMPLES); do $(INSTALL_DATA) $$p $(DESTDIR)$(SHAREDIR)/Yap/meld; done
+
diff --git a/packages/meld/README b/packages/meld/README
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+This is a prototype of MELD in Prolog. For a full description,
+check:
+
+	A Language for Large Ensembles of Independently Executing
+Nodes, Michael P. Ashley-Rollman, Peter Lee, Seth Copen Goldstein,
+Padmanabhan Pillai, and Jason D. Campbell. In Proceedings of the
+International Conference on Logic Programming (ICLP '09), July, 2009.
+
+	Meld: A Declarative Approach to Programming Ensembles. Michael
+P. Ashley-Rollman, Seth Copen Goldstein, Peter Lee, Todd C. Mowry, and
+Padmanabhan Pillai. In Proceedings of the IEEE International
+Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS '07), October,
+2007.
+
+
+Supported:
+	- basic semantics
+	- aggregates
+	- updates
+
+Unsupported:
+	- delete
+	- distributed execution :)
+