Distributed applications (global)

[Sean Hinde]

> Sean,
> 
> I've made a hack to the dist_ac.erl module. I haven't tried it,
> mind you, but it does compile. I thought you'd like to try it.
> What I've done is to try to make sure that dist_ac will always 
> respond to the {dist_ac_weight, _, _, _} messages.
> 
> /Uffe

That seems to have done the trick. One app starts on each of the remaining
two nodes.

I can't imagine that no-one has tried to have two apps failover in this
simple config before though. It seems pretty fundamental. Any comment from
the OTP guys?

Thanks again,

Sean