make of OTP applications

[Ulf Wiger]

It's bugged me for quite some time that there isn't good make
support for .app files.

The different steps that should be taken each time, and which should
be automated, are:

- Verify that the .app file is syntactically correct
- Verify that the 'modules' listing includes all modules in the
  ebin/ directory
- Verify that the 'vsn' attribute corresponds to the app version
  suffix in the filename.

The attached shellscript does the above, assuming that your 
template app file has been named <AppName>.appSrc, and has 
placeholders for 'id', 'vsn', and 'modules'.

Example, ccviewer.appSrc:

{application, ccviewer,
 [{description, "Web-Based ClearCase browser tool"},
  {id,          "&id&"},
  {vsn,         "&vsn&"},
  {modules,     "&modules&"},
  ...]}.

The script can surely be improved. For one thing, it should probably
not be a sequence of Erlang commands piped into an Erlang shell, but
that was my quick-and-dirty approach. I thought I'd share it
with you anyway.

/Uffe
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Ulf Wiger                                    tfn: +46  8 719 81 95
Network Architecture & Product Strategies    mob: +46 70 519 81 95
Ericsson Telecom AB,              Datacom Networks and IP Services
Varuvägen 9, Älvsjö,                    S-126 25 Stockholm, Sweden
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