On 29 March 2011 08:22, Koener Antoine <[email protected]> wrote: >> is of the shells "erl.exe" and "werl.exe". I'm kind of new to this, and I >> want to make sure I am using the right one. > > Easy: > erl.exe don't handle completion, (i.e. TAB is a \t) and runs in 'cmd.exe' > werl.exe is autonomous, you can change the font, you have completion (TAB > completes) > > erl.exe is needed to launch a service (see erlsrv) > werl.exe is the prefered window shell. > > Finally experiment yourself, you'll find that werl is the only way to go on > windows... > > On Mar 28, 2011, at 20:54 , Daniel wrote: > >> Hello, I am using the Windows build of the latest Erlang. I am just >> curious as to what the difference in functionality is of the shells >> "erl.exe" and "werl.exe". I'm kind of new to this, and I want to make sure I >> am using the right one. >> >> Thanks, >> Daniel >> _______________________________________________ >> erlang-questions mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://erlang.org/mailman/listinfo/erlang-questions > > _______________________________________________ > erlang-questions mailing list > [email protected] > http://erlang.org/mailman/listinfo/erlang-questions >
Antoine is correct; for interactive usage werl.exe is the way to go. For services you have to use erl.exe (via erlsrv.exe) & there is an upstream bug COUCHDB-963 / OTP-9139 which I'm currently putting a build together for to incorporate this fix into CouchDB. It should be up in ~ 24h on my unofficial build repo https://github.com/dch/couchdb/downloads/ Feel free to post any questions back - I think I've finally got my head around all of this muck & I'd like to know what features the community needs or wants improving / documenting. Cheers Dave
