What I meant was that I am not convinced that it is necessary and very useful to have the include files<div>inside an archive (while using them).</div><div><br></div><div>But it might be possible to convince me :)</div><div>
<br></div><div>/Kenneth<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 1:20 PM, Ulf Wiger <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ulf@feuerlabs.com">ulf@feuerlabs.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div class="im"><br><div><div>On 6 Mar 2012, at 13:02, Kenneth Lundin wrote:</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><span style="border-collapse:separate;font-family:Helvetica;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:-webkit-auto;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;font-size:medium"><div>
There is no timeline and it is even questionable if it should ever work. What is the argument</div><div>for having the include files inside the archive?</div></span></blockquote></div><br></div><div>I ran into this problem, and made an "OTP patch" for it:</div>
<div><br></div><div><a href="http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.erlang.general/52060" target="_blank">http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.erlang.general/52060</a></div><div><br></div><div>(Don't think I ever submitted it as a patch, since Håkan and I disagreed on some of the implementation details).</div>
<div><br></div><div>I wrote: "The idea (see <a href="http://github.com/esl/run_eqc" target="_blank">http://github.com/esl/run_eqc</a>) was that it should be possible to deliver an application as a single archive, supporting command-line operations, interactive code loading, and compilation including hrl files, parse_transforms etc., without having to unpack the archive."</div>
<div><br></div><div>Philip Stanhope wrote: "Very cool. I can see how this will make deployments very easy."</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.erlang.general/52061" target="_blank">http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.erlang.general/52061</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>Dizzy writes: "+1 on this feature -- it opens some very interesting doors."</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></blockquote></div><br></div>