[erlang-questions] Loading code from an archive

[Ben Hood]

Hi,

I'm using the archive code loading mechanism introduced in R12B5 and
I'm getting some strange error messages - despite the fact that the
code seems to have loaded correctly.

I've created an archive called mod_http.ez with the following structure:

Listing archive: deps/mod_http.ez


  Date      Time    Attr         Size   Compressed  Name
------------------- ----- ------------ ------------  ------------------------
2009-07-12 13:56:28 D....            0            0  mod_http
2009-07-12 13:56:28 D....            0            0  mod_http/ebin
2009-07-12 13:56:28 .....          284          143  mod_http/ebin/mod_http.app
2009-07-12 13:56:28 .....         1396         1111  mod_http/ebin/mod_http.beam
2009-07-12 13:56:28 .....         1148          862
mod_http/ebin/mod_http_app.beam
2009-07-12 13:56:28 .....         3292         2636
mod_http/ebin/mod_http_deps.beam
2009-07-12 13:56:28 .....         3000         2413
mod_http/ebin/mod_http_sup.beam
2009-07-12 13:56:28 .....         2096         1749
mod_http/ebin/mod_http_web.beam
------------------- ----- ------------ ------------  ------------------------
                                11216         8914  6 files, 2 folders

When I load this into the interpreter using the ERL_LIBS variable,
everything seems to work, apart from a spurious error message in the
shell:

** Bad path can't read plugins/mod_http.ez/mod_http/ebin
** Found 0 name clashes in code paths

Is this something I need to be concerned about?

This behavior appears to be consistent in R12B5 and R13B01.

Also, ran into a gotcha with this, which might be relevant: When I
created the zip files, I used the following arguments:

zip -r mod_http.ez mod_http/ebin/*

which has the effect of omitting the top level directory in the zip
file. This contradicts the the specification describe in the man page
for the code module and hence fails to load.

Cheers,

Ben