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

[Dmitry Demeshchuk]

Try running this gist: https://gist.github.com/1600020

reltool.config will reside in lib/gproc/rel/

Thank you.

On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 3:01 PM, Siri Hansen <erlangsiri@REDACTED> wrote:
> Sorry, forgot to copy the list...
>
>
> 2012/1/12 Siri Hansen <erlangsiri@REDACTED>
>>
>> Ok, I see! But what does your reltool config look like when you start
>> reltool?
>>
>> By default, when starting reltool it will traverse all applications seen
>> in the lib dirs. The idea is that if there are multiple modules with the
>> same name, then reltool will fail if it can not decide which one to include,
>> but if the configuration indicates what to include, then it will only warn.
>>
>> There might of course be bugs in this functionality, so an example would
>> be nice to see...
>>
>> /siri
>>
>> 2012/1/12 Dmitry Demeshchuk <demeshchuk@REDACTED>
>>>
>>> I'm sorry, my explanation was really messy.
>>>
>>> It seems like in that case reltool will *see* and somehow *validate*
>>> all Erlang applications it finds in the "lib" directory, no matter if
>>> they are included into reltool.config or not. Maybe this should be
>>> considered as wrong behavior.
>>>
>>> So, in my example erlson wasn't included anywhere in reltool.config.
>>> It just had 'erl_parse' module included into the application. Btw,
>>> apparently Anton has recently removed erl_parse.erl from his
>>> repository, just because it had been causing problems with release
>>> package generation.
>>> Of course, this error is quite specific, but maybe there are more
>>> possible errors that I just don't know.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 2:18 PM, Siri Hansen <erlangsiri@REDACTED>
>>> wrote:
>>> > 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
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Best regards,
>>> Dmitry Demeshchuk
>>
>>
>



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Best regards,
Dmitry Demeshchuk