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As the elixir guys already have hex i think a very useful thing
would be for an erlang package tool to be able to use hex packages
and vice versa. <br>
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On the erlang VM we have Erlang, Elixir, LFE, ErlyDTL and a few
other languages all of which can generate a .beam file. What I would
love to see is a way that I can use a package<br>
without caring (much) about which language it was written in.<br>
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--Zach<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 12/16/2014 01:41 PM, Bruce Yinhe
wrote:<br>
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<div>Hi everyone,</div>
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<div>Industrial Erlang User Group (IEUG) has been working
together with the Erlang/OTP team to investigate and create a
package management system for Erlang/OTP. </div>
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<div><span
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style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">The
lack of a package management system for Erlang has been
discussed for a long time in the community. In essence,
a straightforward package management system is believed
to take Erlang programming language a step forward.
Multiple tools will appear in the community. It needs to
be supported by a highly visible community behind it.</span></p>
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<div>In order to increase the adoption and to result in a tool
widely used in the Erlang ecosystem, we are identifying the
most important user categories and use cases, based on what
the majority of the community want in a package manager.
Therefore we would like to invite an open discussion.</div>
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<div>Now you are welcome to share your thoughts, suggestions or
proposals about an Erlang package manager. It would be great
if you could reply with your motivation, explaining why a
feature is necessary to have. There are some example questions
to begin the dicussion with, including, but not limited to the
following. </div>
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<ul>
<li>What metadata information should an Erlang package
include?</li>
<li>What functionality do you need in a package manager for
Erlang in order to use it in production?<br>
</li>
<li>What other concerns do you have about an Erlang package
management system?</li>
</ul>
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<div>Erlang package manager's brief wish list of features: </div>
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<ul>
<li>Console interface<br>
</li>
<li>Web interface<br>
</li>
<li>Package Index and Repository</li>
<li>Fetch, Install and Remove Packages<br>
</li>
<li>Publish packages<br>
</li>
<li>Versioning and Dependency Management</li>
</ul>
</div>
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<div>We are aware of several previous efforts and existing tools
that attempt to achieve the similar goal. We want to look at
existing things, both from Erlang and Elixir, to see if they
fit the requirements. If not, we will then have to make
something new, perhaps as a rewrite of an existing tool.</div>
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</div>
<div>The IEUG members are putting together requirements for a
package manager and will work with the community and Ericsson
to create a standard and address any voids which exists in the
existing tooling, funding necessary efforts required. <br>
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<div>Best regards</div>
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<div>Bruce Yinhe</div>
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