<div dir="ltr"><div>Thank you all for the excellent advice. I'm not entire which to follow however. Seems like there is some disagreement in terms of best practices.<br><br></div>What I gather from these responses:<br>
<br><ul><li>apt erlang packages are likely out-of-date</li><li>esl-erlang (sorry, typo in first email) may or may not be correct version (this was found at <a href="https://www.erlang-solutions.com/downloads/download-erlang-otp">https://www.erlang-solutions.com/downloads/download-erlang-otp</a>)</li>
<li>For erlang mode I should get the package</li></ul><p>It sounds like the Erlang Solutions version should be good for development but I am still not sure if this is best. I do tend to prefer not to compile from code if that is at all possible. However, I am certainly not opposed to it if that is what is generally recommended.</p>
<p>I think for the time being I will continue with what I have. It sounds like it also includes OTP which I will be needing shortly.</p><p>So far I am loving erlang. It's an incredibly powerful tool to add to my tech toolbox. For some reason many people I have spoken with seem to shy away from it seeing it as "difficult" or "too narrowly focused". But I can say, from what I have learned so far, that neither appears to be true.</p>
<p>As for the project I am working on. It is a globally distributed, highly available and scalable, rabbitmq backed, pub/sub solution. It's been a tremendous solution created by a great former developer of ours that has become, somewhat, a victim of it's own success. It now needs some work on reducing latency across globally-distributed nodes and some supporting maintenance and monitoring. I'm very excited to be a part of it and expect to be a regular contributor, both on the giving and receiving end, to this group.</p>
<p><br></p><p>Again, thank you all!</p><p><br></p><p>-rb<br></p></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 6:33 PM, $B%N!<%H%s(B $B%8%g!<%;%U(B $B%&%'%$(B $B%s(B <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:norton@lovely.email.ne.jp" target="_blank">norton@lovely.email.ne.jp</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><br></div><div>If you want to build and/or to install Erlang/OTP from source, kerl (<a href="https://github.com/spawngrid/kerl" target="_blank">https://github.com/spawngrid/kerl</a>) is a handy tool.</div>
<div><br></div><div>regards,</div><div><br></div><div>Joe N.</div><div><div class="h5"><br><div><div>On Jan 16, 2013, at 09:00 , Alex Babkin <<a href="mailto:ababkin@gmail.com" target="_blank">ababkin@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div>
<br><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">Hi Ryan<div><br></div><div>I'd suggest not using the apt but rather just get the freshest sources and build it from source</div><div><a href="http://www.erlang.org/download.html" target="_blank">http://www.erlang.org/download.html</a><br>
</div><div><br></div><div>do tell us about the project you will be maintaining</div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 6:50 PM, Ryan Brown <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ryankbrown@gmail.com" target="_blank">ryankbrown@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">I have begun learning erlang using the tutorial at:<div><br></div><div><a href="http://learnyousomeerlang.com/" target="_blank">http://learnyousomeerlang.com</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>So far it has been wonderful and I expect the remainder to be as well. However, as a newbie to Erlang, I have come across an issue and need some clarification.</div>
<div><br></div><div>When I began the tutorial I just did an install via apt-get like so:</div><div><br></div><div>sudo apt-get install erlang</div><div><br></div><div>This has worked very well in the console for the excercises thus far. However, I am now at the point when I want to begin using emacs. When I go to install the emacs erlang-mode it seems to be requiring OTP. (I had planned on starting with the Erlang language fundamentals then move-on to OTP specific stuff) When I went to install OTP it instucted me to use apt-get and install esl\erlang:</div>
<div><br></div><div>sudo apt-get install esl\erlang</div><div><br></div><div>However, when I do this I receive conflict errors. So, I just went ahead and removed erlang:</div><div><br></div><div>sudo apt-get remove erlang</div>
<div><br></div><div>Then installed OTP as instructed:</div><div><br></div><div>sudo apt-get install esl/erlang</div><div><br></div><div>Now it appears to be good but I am unsure of what state I am in. Could someone please explain the difference? Am I missing anything from core erlang? I want to make sure because I am about to begin work maintaining a system that uses erlang and OTP.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Thanks in advance!<span><font color="#888888"><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br>-rb
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