[erlang-questions] Are packaged modules the way to go ?

[Bengt Kleberg]

Greetings,

This is a thread from when packaged modules was last(?) discussed on the
list:
http://forum.trapexit.org/mailinglists/viewtopic.php?p=22616&highlight=&sid=2ff3904329e85e18ccf70ca20e79c042

I belive it shows that the existing packaged modules are not a
sufficiently good idea to warrant official adaptation.

 
bengt

On Mon, 2008-12-29 at 03:14 +0100, cyril Romain wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> This mail is about packaged modules (module with namespace), aimed to 
> extend Erlang with structured module packages [1].
> You can find a quick introduction [2] and the packages module 
> documentation [3].
> 
> Using packaged modules or not has little impact on code but quite big 
> impact on:
>  - project file structure and naming
>  - tools analyzing Erlang files or project file structure (such as 
> debugger, dialyzer, Emakefile, etc.).
>  - and consequently on package structure (I mean Erlang software 
> packaging here, such as done by CEAN [4]).
> The support for packaged module has been introduced in Erlang/OTP before 
> 2003 for evaluation purpose [5], but its adoption (or the intent of 
> adoption) seems still unclear today.
> 
> So my question is: for the sake of Erlang software consistency, should 
> Erlang developers - be it core developers or developers using Erlang - 
> adopt packaged modules ?
> Does it need improvement before official adoption ? Should packaged 
> modules be ignored (or even removed from Erlang?) instead ?
> 
> Best regards,
> 
>   Cyril
> 
> [1] http://www.it.uu.se/research/publications/reports/2000-001/
> [2] http://www.erlang.se/publications/packages.html
> [3] http://erlang.org/doc/man/packages.html ; For some reason exported 
> methods are not documented.
> [4] http://cean.process-one.net/
> [5] http://www.erlang.org/pipermail/erlang-questions/2003-April/008575.html
> 
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