[erlang-questions] Erlang application packaging

[Ali Sabil]

Hi Jean,

I don't know if you have come across this:
http://learnyousomeerlang.com/release-is-the-word#am-i-an-executable-yet
but it might be helpful?

Best,
Ali

On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 3:52 PM, Jean Parpaillon
<jean.parpaillon@REDACTED> wrote:
> Hi all,
> I'm Jean Parpaillon, new erlang enthusiast and (soon) programmer. On 7
> past years, I've workedon distributed systems, specially in HPC and
> cloud computing. I'm trying to develop an XMPP agent for system
> management, written in Erlang. This is the introduction, now the
> question :)
> What is your preferred packaging/deployment system for erlang ? I have a
> code running, from erlang shell, and want it to become a real world
> application the user can install from an archive and launch from its
> shell, eventually with some parameters.
>
> I've read about systools, and how to generated .app, .appup, .rel, .boot
> and so on. This looks fine but a lot to do by hand. When it comes to
> update a file, and release the whole stuff, one have to modify plenty of
> others. Or am I wrong ?
> I've looked to existing applications or 'helloworld's: some of them
> using autotools (ejabberd, ...), a lot of others using rebar, sometime a
> little a bit of both, iirc.
> rebar has a lot of magic, which makes debugging hard.
> autotools is not well designed for erlang, but putting some existing m4
> files here and there seems to fit. At least, I know autotools well. I
> know how can I generate .app, .rel and so on with autotools, but I don't
> know what to put in it :/
> At the end, for launching the application, I've seen many projects not
> using .boot files, but a shell script with tons of arguments to erl...
>
> I'm a little bit confused :( Any help ?
>
> Best regards,
> --
> Jean Parpaillon
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