[erlang-questions] using the target_system module

[mark peleus]

I'll have a deeper look at Sinan but I actually like the way target_system
work.
With a single call it generates everything needed to make my erlang
application portable.
That's why I wanted to try and improve target_system.

I like the way Sinan build an application skeleton but I rather have that in
the erlang release instead of learning
to work with another tool.

Thanks

On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 5:53 PM, Logan, Martin <MARTIN.LOGAN@REDACTED>wrote:

> I don't actually like the target system library.  It prescribes names and
> such that are not exactly natural in my opinion. We wrote the Sinan build
> system which when combined with the faxien package manager can accomplish
> this same functionality in a cleaner way I think. It will also work with
> lower versions of Erlang though I would recommend using faxien to just
> install a greater version of Erlang on your system. To get the erl shell and
> erlc installed once you have faxien installed just run
>
> faxien install-release erl
>
> You can find them at erlware.org.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: erlang-questions@REDACTED [mailto:erlang-questions@REDACTED] On
> Behalf Of Pablo Platt
> Sent: Monday, September 21, 2009 4:59 PM
> To: Erlang Questions
> Subject: [erlang-questions] using the target_system module
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm using the target_system module from
> http://erlang.org/doc/system_principles/create_target.html
> The OTP application I'm using for tests is simpletest from
> http://eaglestreet.wordpress.com/2008/08/22/releasing_erlang_otp_code/
>
> The target_system module is really good.
> Is it officially supported and will be included in a future release or just
> an example?
>
> I have several remarks:
>
> 1. It doesn't work with the Ubuntu Jaunty erlang package. The doc should
> indicate that it only works with R13B and above.
> 2. I had to manually change the permissions of some of the scripts under
> the bin directory to executable.
> Is it possible that the module will take care of that?
> 3. It took me some time to understand that bin/start can't run without
> sys.config file under the releases dir.
> Can bin/start throw an error if it can't find the sys.config file?
> 4. The module should create a log dir.
> 5. In my case the create method built relative path. I'm not sure if this
> is intended or not but it might cause issues.
> 6. It will be helpful to have a tar file online with a test application
> that works with this module for easy learning.
>
> Thanks
>
>
>
>
>
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