[erlang-questions] module dependencies between applications when using .appup files

[Torben Hoffmann]

Malcom,

I think you should have a look at phased application start-up - to the best
of my recollection the principles there also apply when you do an
application upgrade.

Cheers,
Torben

On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 19:33, Dowse, Malcolm <malcolm@REDACTED> wrote:

> Hi,
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> I have a question about the release handler and .appup files.
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> I have two applications, app, and app_common, and a release which uses
> both. app_common is a dependency of app. So if app is running,
> app_common will be too.. but not the opposite.
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> It is possible to force a module in app_common to load before one in
> app. You specify {load_module, app_module, [app_common_module]} in
> app.appup. This isn't very elegant, but it definitely works.
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> The problem I'm having is that when upgrading the release, I want to
> load a module in app before I load one in app_common. Without a command
> like {load_module, app_module, [{reverse_dependency,
> app_common_module}]} there seems to be no way of doing this. Adding
> {load_module, app_common_module, [app_module]} to app_common.appup is
> out of the question.
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> Can anyone tell me any clever tricks/hacks to get around this?
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> Thanks in advance,
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> Malcolm
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