[erlang-questions] Ability to add app directories explicitly for reltool

[Siri Hansen]

Hi!

The only possible problem I can see is that any projects that cause
> conflicts in reltool will make us unable to build release packages for
> *the rest* of the projects that reside in the same directory.
>
> Say, I had erlson in my projects directory, and it was causing the
> conflicts during release package generation (well, placing
> erl_parse.erl into application listing is wrong, it definitely needs
> to be fixed).
> Probably, the same goes to projects that may contain same modules in
> the applications listing (rabbitmq and riak_core both use
> gen_server2.erl, and those modules are actually different; this
> doesn't affect any of them but definitely but won't let us build
> release package).
> Maybe, there are some more rare errors that might occur as well.
>

I'm not sure that I understand everything here... Do you mean that with my
proposal reltool will *see* some applications which it shall not include in
the release package? And that the fact that some of these applications have
modules with equal names causes problems when building the release package?

If so, is it not possible to write a reltool config which specifies which
apps/modules to use - and by this avoid conflicts? Sorry for the stupid
questions - I just feel like it would be good to understand the problems
completely...

/siri
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