<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">My 2 cents.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
Package management and rebar come up all the time on the listserv and it will continue to come up until a viable long term solution is in place. I think the thing to fix is the underlying issue of application level namespacing. The existing dependency management system is an afterthought. If application A requires (X, v1.0) and application B requires (X, v1.1), and you want A and B to coexist, you're going to have issues.</div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Ideally, erlang would know that when application A calls a module from X, it references the v1.0 one etc.</div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">In short, the place to start thinking about this should not be any peripheral system but incorporating it into the underlying language.</div>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 9:21 AM, Andrew Pennebaker <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:andrew.pennebaker@gmail.com" target="_blank">andrew.pennebaker@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><p dir="ltr">That's a horrible position. Windows isn't my favorite OS either, but it only hurts the Erlang commumity to dismiss support for it. There are plenty of services using a Windows stack, and if we don't care about Windows support, Windows developers will continue to use programming languages that DO care, like Haskell.</p>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Jun 11, 2013 11:05 AM, "Peter Lemenkov" <<a href="mailto:lemenkov@gmail.com" target="_blank">lemenkov@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
2013/6/11 Andrew Pennebaker <<a href="mailto:andrew.pennebaker@gmail.com" target="_blank">andrew.pennebaker@gmail.com</a>>:<br>
> That's nice to know!<br>
><br>
> What about Windows and Mac? For some reason, rebar isn't in stable Homebrew<br>
> yet, only in head.<br>
<br>
I personally don't care about Windows users since I don't see any real<br>
reason to use Erlang on Windows. Regarding Mac OS X - indeed you<br>
should invest your time into enhancing package system for that<br>
platform.<br>
--<br>
With best regards, Peter Lemenkov.<br>
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