[erlang-questions] Reltool anyone?

[Francesco Cesarini]

We are explaining how OTP works by explaining what is going on behind the scenes. A different approach I found out worked better when teaching behaviours than diving straight into callback hell. Release handling, on the other hand, has always been the black sheep because of the lack of a unified approach. Everyone has historically  reached (potentially different) goals in different ways, often depending on what they were used to and comfortable with from previous (non Erlang) jobs. 

Buy me or Ulf a beer and we will tell you how release handling was done with the Axd301. You must have a strong stomach, as it is not for the faint of heart :-)

F



> On 17 Aug 2014, at 18:58, Tristan Sloughter <tristan.sloughter@REDACTED> wrote:
> 
> I find it confusing when books spend so much time on what should be considered more of an internals matter, like manually building a release, which is found in an appendix or online docs
> 
> It isn't something you'd do in real life, but yes it is something you would benefit from knowing once you are dealing with building and deploying releases even when using a higher level tool like reltool or relx.
> 
> Just my 2 cents :)
> 
> 
>> On Sun, Aug 17, 2014 at 11:39 AM, Francesco Cesarini <francesco@REDACTED> wrote:
>> We are covering relx and rebar and might add more tools based on feedback we receive from the reviewers. 
>> 
>> Also for those wondering - So far, we have about 30 pages on release handling. In line with the rest of the book, we are explaining in detail what is happening behind the scenes and how to manually create a release. From there, we show you how to automate it and use the tools. 
>> 
>> /F
>> 
>> 
>>> On 17/08/2014 17:23, Tristan Sloughter wrote:
>>> I'm pretty sure "counter intuitive" and "will make your struggle" are reltool's best known features.
>>> 
>>> Which is why relx (https://github.com/erlware/relx) has been catching on :)
>>> 
>>>> On Sun, Aug 17, 2014 at 11:07 AM, Francesco Cesarini <francesco@REDACTED> wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>> 
>>>> I was wrapping up the chapter on release handling for the OTP book and never having used it before, decided to take a look at reltool. Is anyone using it? I am finding it counter intuitive and struggling to see how it simplifies the task of creating releases.
>>>> 
>>>> Feel free to reply to the list or ping me privately.
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> F
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