<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On 6 Mar 2012, at 13:02, Kenneth Lundin wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 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>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">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">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">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></body></html>