It definitely seems like the right way to go. We have an insanely good packaging system out there with a lot of good apps. Unfortunatly, we don't do a good job of surfacing that information. Hopefully this will solve that problem.
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 12:53 AM, Samuel <[email protected]> wrote: > > Sounds more than great. > > 2009/4/22, Martin Logan <[email protected]>: >> >> All, here is what we are thinking for the relatively near term on Erlware: >> >> Faxien - >> New install and release structure. Pre installed releases that >> faxien understands will have the same structure as you get in >> /lib/erlang when you install erlang/OTP from erlang.org. Basically if >> you want to use faxien to install releases right into your native OTP >> install it will work after this modification. This means that there >> will be one lib directory under your erlware install that contains >> apps compiled for many different Erts versions. Basically this is a >> move to get very standard and simple. This will also make us fully >> compatible with the new rel tool. >> >> After these changes faxien will be put into maintenance mode. >> Community patches always appreciated. >> >> Sinan - >> Add simple build hooks for calling into outside build scripts at >> different phases >> Dist must create releases of the new structure >> Know how to crawl the new lib structure selecting only dependencies >> that are compatible with the erts version a given Sinan instance is >> compiled for >> >> After these changes Sinan will be put into maintenance mode. >> Community patches always appreciated. >> >> >> >> THE REPOS >> >> This is where all our focus is going. After the simple changes above >> are made the rest of our focus will be repos repos repos. This means >> better support for digital signatures, more applications and releases, >> better website that allows for enhanced searching and easy download of >> packages with or without faxien. >> >> >> With these changes we should provide our community with a much greater >> level of support. >> >> > >> > > > -- > Samuel > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "erlware-dev" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/erlware-dev?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
