[erlang-questions] erlang package manager

[eigenfunction]

Thank you for the detailed break down. After playing with sinan and
rebar,
i tend to like sinan more. Of course, my view might change as i
become
more experience with the tool. I have tried to stay away from maven,
since java build tools usually give me nightmares. But since you use
rebar
and package your stuff maven style, i am going to bring maven back
into the equation since
i already know how it works.


On Dec 19, 2:44 am, Tim Watson <watson.timo...@REDACTED> wrote:
> On 18 December 2011 18:56, eigenfunction <emeka_1...@REDACTED> wrote:
>
> > Hi everybody,
> > I have been doing some erlang programming recently and have always
> > generated the release manually and never really used neither rebar nor
> > sinan. It seems like most people in the community have settled for
> > rebar. Before i spend the next couple of days playing with those
> > tools, can someone pls give me a quick recap on the differences
> > between both?
>
> In terms of building your code, there isn't much difference really. In
> terms of package management, there's a big difference. The Erlware tool
> chain relies on a custom repository that holds binary (i.e., pre-built)
> artefacts and fetches the right ones for your system (based on OTP/erts
> version, OS, etc) - this is a good thing IMHO as I like just grabbing a
> thing once and not having to worry about the build steps, incompatibilities
> in build config, etc. The down side of the Erlware stack is that it hasn't
> been heavily adopted, so not that many of the libs/apps you want are
> available through the package manager. There are ways around this, but it's
> put me off to date.
>
> Now rebar on the other hand, doesn't do *package management* as such. It
> has a facility for fetching dependencies from the internet using version
> control tools (git, mercurial, subversion, bazaar) and puts these into a
> local build folder. All the commands you run at the top level basically
> recurse into the dependencies folder(s), so running `rebar get-deps
> compile` will fetch the stuff the build config needs and compile everything.
>
> There are other tools out there that do package management of sorts, agner
> probably being the most heavily adopted, but also there is sutro and epm.
> Of these, only agner integrates with rebar.
>
> There appears to be an effort by the erlware guys to produce another
> package manager that supports rebar and sinan based builds - they have
> repos on github and I'm sure will comment on this.
>
> There is also meant to be a successor to cean coming out soon, which will
> probably be quite similar in spirit (support numerous build tools and/or
> dependency management strategies) but we heard about it on the list some
> time ago and it hasn't materialised yet - seehttp://erlang.org/pipermail/erlang-questions/2011-June/059195.html. I do
> hope that the major players will collaborate if only to standardise their
> configuration handling, as it'd be nice to *write once, install using
> anything* as it were.
>
> I have been considering hacking together an alternative dependency manager
> for rebar, but I'm waiting to see if cean 2.0 comes out soon and how well
> it is adopted (or whether it will fetch stuff from alternative locations
> besides the main artefact repository).
>
> Hope that's a useful start - I'm sure lots of others will pipe up about
> this as it's a popular topic.
>
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