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+		<a href="https://github.com/ninenines/erlang.mk/tree/master/index">470+ packages</a>
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+<div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="why.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center"> </th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="contributing.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr /></div><div class="chapter"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title"><a id="history"></a>Chapter 24. Short history</h2></div></div></div><p>This chapter aims to be a brief record of the life of the
+Erlang.mk project.</p><div class="section"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a id="_before_erlang_mk"></a>24.1. Before Erlang.mk</h2></div></div></div><p>Erlang.mk originates from the Cowboy project. Cowboy started
+as a Rebar project and I, Loïc Hoguin, was very happy with it
+for a couple years. Over time however I started getting annoyed
+and frustrated by a number of things, including bad defaults,
+changing defaults and overall slowness.</p><p>In particular, at the time I gave up on Rebar, the Cowboy
+test suite was taking about five minutes to run. A quick experiment
+showed I could get much lower times by simply invoking <code class="literal">ct_run</code>
+directly. On January 4th, 2013, the Cowboy test suite took less
+than a minute to complete.</p><p>Following this success I started removing a little more and,
+on the fateful day of January 5th, 2013, removed the dependency
+on Rebar entirely. Rebar, and in particular the concept of
+dependencies, was, and still is, a pretty strong influence.</p><p>Erlang.mk was conceived.</p><p>A few months passed and, on May 1st, 2013, the Erlang.mk
+repository was created. Erlang.mk was born.</p><p>Little did I know how much it would grow.</p></div><div class="section"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a id="_lifetime_of_the_project"></a>24.2. Lifetime of the project</h2></div></div></div><p>Erlang.mk would eventually become a much larger file able to
+deal with many more projects than just Cowboy. From the birth
+of the project, the biggest force for growth was user contributions,
+because Erlang.mk appealed to a variety of people with different
+needs, needs that Erlang.mk was not fulfilling yet.</p><p>The project was split into smaller files focused on a different
+feature each, and a build script was written to build the single
+Erlang.mk file.</p><p>A test suite was contributed by a user, and later taken as a basis
+for the current, much more complete test suite. Turns out testing
+a Makefile is pretty straightforward.</p><p>A package index was added to solve the problem of discovering
+Erlang projects.</p><p>After trying to see if Erlang build tools could cooperate, the
+decision was made to improve compatibility with existing Rebar
+projects by patching Rebar out, using Rebar. This feature, called
+autopatch, proved very successful and made Erlang.mk compatible
+with more than 90% of all Erlang projects.</p><p>Erlang.mk documentation was much improved and the Erlang.mk website
+was created in the summer of 2015.</p><p>Over the year of 2015, Erlang.mk went from curiosity to a serious
+alternative to other Erlang build tools. The user base increased
+immensely and large projects started using it, including RabbitMQ
+from the 3.6.0 release onward.</p><p>A bright future lies ahead.</p></div></div><div class="navfooter"><hr /><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="why.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="about.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="contributing.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top"> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> </td></tr></table></div>
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