On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 3:40 PM, Torben Hoffmann <[email protected]> wrote: > Hmmm, this gives rise to some questions... > > On my new machine I ditched the OTP install and I am now relying on faxien > to provide me with a good Erlang installation - am I off track with this > approach? Are there any drawback to this approach?
No, zero drawback. This is what I do as well. Some people use both lots of times simply because they don't know there is another option. I don't see any reason to install erlang/otp from source > > erlang/lib as ERL_LIBS is not enough as I see it. Sometime you pull a repo > of some application and just want to have it available for you development, > but I can see that this could pose some problems when creating a release. > Maybe I have to try to create a release which requires an application > located somewhere in ERL_LIBS and see what happens. > > Cheers, > Torben > > On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 19:35, Martin Logan <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I am also in the process of releasing new bootstrapper code, this code >> will allow you to easily install erlware in the same place as your OTP >> install which will allow you to use erlang/lib as your libdir BTW. >> >> On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 12:34 PM, Martin Logan <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > the repo that contains the erlware/bin/erl file? Ahh, there is no >> > repository that contians it actually. It is a release that lives only >> > in the erlware repo. The process on that one is that as soon as a new >> > version of Erlang/OTP is released we pull the erl release as such >> > >> > faxien fetch-release erl ./ >> > >> > and then modify it to reflect the latest versions of everything and >> > publish it anew. >> > >> > Is that the info you are looking for? >> > >> > Cheers, >> > Martin >> > >> > On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 4:22 PM, LeHoff <[email protected]> >> > wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> >> >> I have managed to get faxien to install Erlang on my new Mac >> >> (Snowleopard) so now I am done with other ways of installing Erlang. >> >> >> >> However, erlware has a fondness for overwriting the ERL_LIBS variable >> >> which I happen to to use for an application which is not yet part of >> >> erlware (neotoma - I will put it in when I have a setup that works >> >> 100%). >> >> >> >> I would like to change erlware/bin/erl to use an existing ERL_LIBS >> >> value instead of forcing erlware/lib on everything. >> >> (If this is a bad thing to want please explain so I can become wiser!) >> >> >> >> How do I find the repository which contains this file? >> >> Zapping through the repos seems somewhat inefficient to me... >> >> >> >> Cheers, >> >> Torben >> >> >> >> -- >> >> 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. >> >> >> >> >> >> >> > >> >> -- >> 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. >> >> >> > > > > -- > http://www.linkedin.com/in/torbenhoffmann > > -- > 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. > >
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