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[Eric Newhuis]

If memory serves me correctly we had trouble passing off some module names
to some OTP modules that liked to use the {M,F,A} "callback" idiom.

But there may have been some problems with some 3rd party tools as well.

And we inherited a build system from someone and it did not like the dots
either.

Sorry I cannot recall any specifics.



On 8/16/04 7:25 AM, "Richard Carlsson" <richardc@REDACTED> wrote:

> 
> On Mon, 16 Aug 2004, Eric Newhuis wrote:
> 
>> We tried this feature and it caused problems.
>> 
>> Either due to our then lack of Erlang finesse or actual limitations the
>> packaging causes problems with OTP.
> 
> Can you describe these problems in a bit more detail, please?
> 
>> Can anyone comment on that?  Maybe it has been brought up before.
>> Now where is that mailling list archive search button....
> 
> The only real problem that I know about has to do with the debugger,
> which has its own hard-coded ideas about how a module looks and
> where it should be found.
> 
> /Richard
> 
>> On 8/16/04 2:41 AM, "Richard Carlsson" <richardc@REDACTED> wrote:
>> 
>>> Thomas.Herchenroeder@REDACTED wrote:
>>> 
>>>>>   http://www.erlang.se/publications/packages.html
>>>>>   http://www.it.uu.se/research/reports/2000-001
>>>> 
>>>> Now this is interesting! I looked through the Erlang book, the "Erlang
>>>> Extensions since 4.4" and the most current "Erlang Reference Manual
>>>> version 5.3" - no mentioning of packages. Is this something like a
>>>> (nearly) "undocumented feature"?
>>> 
>>> "Nearly undocumented" is pretty much correct. It is only announced
>>> in the "Release Highlights" section of the R9 documentation.
>>> 
>>> Note that the tech report from 2000 was just the first draft of
>>> what the package system could look like. It does not describe the
>>> implementation. The first link above is the one to use for reference.
>>> 
>>> /Richard
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