The plan is to always install in ~/.mix/escripts which you should add to your path. Messing with the user system is a no-go.
Version wise, we currently support only the latest version of the archive. It should be straightforward to add multiple versions to escripts though (not possible for archives). Differently from archives, escripts are isolated and self-contained. They depend only on your Erlang VM installation. On Thursday, May 26, 2016, Gleb Arshinov <[email protected]> wrote: > Eric, > > I have been watching 'mix escript.install' with concern. One of the > best thing about mix is that it does not install anything outside the > project directory and ~/.mix. Unlike ruby gems, which are a > disaster. > > My concern is about "install it on the local system"? What is > "system"? Usually this word would mean something you do as superuser, > preferably using distribution's package manager. > > And what is the the use case for this feature? Will it replace > archives for doing "mix phoenix.new"? > > Looking at the PR for this > https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/pull/2974 it seems these will go > into ~/.mix/escripts This is reassuring. So it won't install > anything system-wide? > > How are you going to handle name clashes > between different package versions, and different Elixir versions? Is > this a reasonable question, given whatever usecase you have in mind? > > Best regards, > > Gleb > > On Tue, May 24, 2016 at 3:03 PM, Eric Meadows-Jönsson > <[email protected] <javascript:;>> wrote: > > I just realized I forgot to include the purpose of the email: "asking for > > feedback about this feature" :). Please let us know if you have any > concerns > > or want to make any changes to it. > > > > If there are no major changes based on feedback on this feature I will > open > > an issue for it in a few days and leave it up for grabs. > > > > On Tue, May 24, 2016 at 8:13 PM, Eric Meadows-Jönsson > > <[email protected] <javascript:;>> wrote: > >> > >> Today we have `mix escript.install` for installing escripts on the local > >> system. > >> It supports installing pre-built escripts from the local filesystem or > via > >> HTTP. > >> > >> One issue with this is that the project maintainers need to build and > host > >> the > >> escripts themselves which goes against the conveniences we have built > >> around Mix > >> with Hex and the surrounding tooling such as HexDocs. > >> > >> We propose to extend the `escript.install` task with support for > building > >> and > >> installing projects via Git URLs or Hex package names. Examples of this > >> would be: > >> > >> $ mix escript.install github my_project git_ref > >> $ mix escript.install git https://path/to/git/repo git_ref > >> $ mix escript.install hex phoenix_new > >> $ mix escript.install hex phoenix_new 1.2.3 > >> > >> This would fetch the project and its dependencies to a temporary > directory > >> with > >> Mix' dependency tooling, build the project as an escript and install it > on > >> the > >> local system. > >> > >> -- > >> Eric Meadows-Jönsson > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Eric Meadows-Jönsson > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "elixir-lang-core" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > > email to [email protected] <javascript:;>. > > To view this discussion on the web visit > > > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elixir-lang-core/CAM_eapjmC6Uj3uAPok%2B-AFW3jPctwrw65gnG%2BMqcYZxbS5ut2Q%40mail.gmail.com > . > > > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "elixir-lang-core" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected] <javascript:;>. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elixir-lang-core/CACZNi58ZKZiO0pZBF3qt_QMiT_iyi5ARQTJiOq0QMFa0Sd2oww%40mail.gmail.com > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- *José Valim* www.plataformatec.com.br Skype: jv.ptec Founder and Director of R&D -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elixir-lang-core" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elixir-lang-core/CAGnRm4LoMuD6Kffh-BLhRO9DyKTMB6y1WPkXuxdgEWp4GykuLQ%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
