[erlang-questions] Re: Library management in erlang.

[Dale Harvey]

On 18 May 2010 18:01, Bob Ippolito <bob@REDACTED> wrote:

> On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 8:36 AM, Nicholas Frechette <zeno490@REDACTED>
> wrote:
> > IMO, it is premature to talk about an erlang library management system
> when
> > the risk of module name collision is so high. We'd have to
> require/enforce a
> > package prefix in the form of 'packagename_' to all modules of a package.
>
> Many (most?) packages already do this, so it's not really a problem.
>
> > That is until erlang has an approved package/namespace system (the one
> > currently implemented is experimental and discussed in another thread
> atm).
>
> There's plenty other global resources you can run into that aren't
> just module names, e.g. processes or applications. Picking a namespace
> syntax doesn't fix that.
>
>
and the erlang "application" infrastructure already warns(errors?) against
conflicts in module names / global processes etc.

As long as the library management system was based around .app files, doesnt
seem like there would be a problem


> Also if you don't install packages system-wide, you're even less
> likely to have a problem. You could use something like Basho's rebar
> to manage application installs with dependencies.
>
> -bob
>
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