On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 2:53 AM, Torben Hoffmann <[email protected]> wrote:
> I assume that the switch over is for sinan to use reltool and not for you to
> start using rebar, right?

As Jordan said there are no plans for that at all. We are noodling
around on a package management system that would take over some of
sinan's duties but that is a different story entirely then migrating
to reltool.

>
> I am - as most of you know - not fund of the way rebar deals with
> configuration management so I was trying to get all the dependencies for a
> project I am building and I got really bitten by how much magic rebar throws
> at the table under your feet. For every application that I do manage to
> install into my ERL_LIBS one or two new dependencies pop up.
>
> I am eating my own medicine with regards to have configuration management
> under control I fork every project since many project owners forget to label
> and in other ways control the version of their software.
> This is slightly painful, but compared to the pain of being hit by a
> fantastic new feature in the latest commit of a dependency I am taking the
> pain.

This is basically exactly what I end up doing and its painful for all
the reasons you specify.
>
> Cheers,
> Torben
>
>
> On 30/3/12 22:31 , Eric Merritt wrote:
>>
>> I have been talking with the reltool folks on a side channel and they
>> say basically the same thing. If they fix a couple of the bugs (and I
>> hope they will) I might switch sinan over. Though it would screw the
>> R14 using folks so we will have to see.
>>
>> On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 12:20 PM, Tristan Sloughter
>> <[email protected]>  wrote:
>>>
>>> Watching the talk on what's coming in OTP this morning. Apparently
>>> reltool
>>> is getting lots of work for R15B01 and R16. Some changes he says are
>>> explicitly for rebar.
>>>
>>> Maybe reltool will be more useable.. The talk didn't give details of what
>>> the changes really are, but probably something we should look at to see
>>> if
>>> they would be of use for sinan.
>>>
>>> Anyone know what they are?
>>>
>>> Tristan
>>>
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