[erlang-questions] Coon - new tool for building Erlang packages, dependency management and deploying Erlang services

[Nathaniel Waisbrot]

As an American: most Americans working in a professional capacity would absolutely think twice about it.

You don't need to to get upset: nobody's forcing anyone to change names. However, it's good to have information so that we can make informed decisions.

Actually, I'd suggest that the way you immediately drew up battle lines about this is a good clue as to how some names will be received and why people might want to avoid such names.



> On Feb 12, 2018, at 9:04 AM, Loïc Hoguin <essen@REDACTED> wrote:
> 
> More importantly, who is aware of them? I doubt too many people outside of North America know about it.
> 
> And secondly, should you censor a word that's otherwise perfectly fine because of its use in slang? It'll get some radical activists angry for sure so it depends on whether you see this as a good or a bad thing. Nowadays that tends to be a good thing.
> 
> Most people will not think twice about it.
> 
> On 02/12/2018 02:17 PM, Fred Hebert wrote:
>> Are you aware of the connotations coming with that name?
>> On Sun, Feb 11, 2018 at 4:05 PM, Valery Tikhonov <valerii.tikhonov@REDACTED <mailto:valerii.tikhonov@REDACTED>> wrote:
>>    Hi,
>>    I would like to introduce Сoon <https://github.com/comtihon/coon> -
>>    build and dependency management system and tool for easy deployment
>>    Erlang packages.
>>    In short:
>>      * coon uses prebuilt packages from CoonHub
>>        <https://coon.justtech.blog>, what reduces build time
>>      * thanks to github integration it allows to trigger new builds for
>>        Erlang packages when commiting new tag in repo
>>      * you can set installation steps to deploy and run Erlang service
>>        from prebuilt package on system without otp/Erlang installed
>>        with `coon install namespace/name`
>>    Documentation, articles and links:
>>    coon (client) - https://github.com/comtihon/coon
>>    <https://github.com/comtihon/coon> see Readme.md and doc folder
>>    coon_auto_builder (server) -
>>    https://github.com/comtihon/coon_auto_builder
>>    <https://github.com/comtihon/coon_auto_builder>
>>    how to create and build Erlang service from scratch
>>    https://justtech.blog/2018/01/07/create-erlang-service-with-coon/
>>    <https://justtech.blog/2018/01/07/create-erlang-service-with-coon/>
>>    how to prepare Erlang service for deploy
>>    https://justtech.blog/2018/02/11/erlang-service-easy-deploy-with-coon/
>>    <https://justtech.blog/2018/02/11/erlang-service-easy-deploy-with-coon/>
>>    example service which uses coon
>>    https://github.com/comtihon/example_service
>>    <https://github.com/comtihon/example_service>
>>    example library which uses coon
>>    https://github.com/comtihon/mongodb-erlang
>>    <https://github.com/comtihon/mongodb-erlang>
>>    Hope you find this tool useful :)
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