<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div>Sounds great. Unless there are good reasons to keep the current behavior (anyone?), how about just naming your patch start/1?</div><div><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">The current behavior, should one need it, might be renamed to start_only/1. Maybe add a boolean function to check if an application has been started. Anything else?</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">Best,</div><div style="color:
rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">Thomas</div><div><br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; margin-top: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> <div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <hr size="1"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Geoff Cant <nem@erlang.geek.nz><br></font></div><div class="y_msg_container">Interestingly, with correct OTP .app files, 'application' has enough information to start my app and all its dependencies. Currently 'application' is a bit of a jerk - it tells me the exact app that it could have started for me, that is a missing start dependency for the app I am trying to start.<br><br>These
lines may make development a little easier for you right now, and either I, or someone soon to be on my famed Holiday Card List, will hopefully fix this wart before R16B02.<br><br><br>Anyone have suggestions for a function name for this feature? application:recursive_start/2? application:start_recursively/2? application:run/2?<br><br></div> </div> </div> </blockquote></div> </div></body></html>