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@@ -1,12 +1,31 @@ kerl ==== +Easy building and installing of [Erlang/OTP](http://www.erlang.org) instances. -Easy building and installing of [Erlang/OTP](http://www.erlang.org) instances +Kerl aims to be shell agnostic and its only dependencies, excluding what's +required to actually build Erlang/OTP, are `curl` and `git`. -Kerl aims to be shell agnostic and its only dependencies, excluding what's required to actually build Erlang/OTP, are `curl` and `git`. +All is done so that, once a specific release has been built, creating a new +installation is as fast as possible. -All is done so that, once a specific release has been built, creating a new installation is as fast as possible. +OTP Support Policy +------------------ +As of 2017 May 24, we are supporting OTP back to R14B04. Older builds +may or may not work. We will advance release support as new releases of OTP +become available. For example, when OTP 20 is released, we will support Erlang +builds R15 and newer. + +Triage cadence +-------------- +We triage kerl pull requests and issues at least once a month, typically on +the fourth Tuesday of the month at 1 pm US/Pacific or 8 pm UTC. +IRC channel +----------- +We have a channel on [freenode](http://webchat.freenode.net) called `#kerl` - +feel free to join and ask support or implementation questions any time. If +no one is around, feel free to open an issue with your question or problem +instead. Downloading ----------- @@ -15,7 +34,6 @@ If you are on MacOS, and using [homebrew](https://github.com/Homebrew/brew), you $ brew install kerl - Alternatively, you can download the script directly from github: $ curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kerl/kerl/master/kerl @@ -612,6 +630,16 @@ will honor that instead, and will not do any automatic configuration. Changelog --------- +24 May 2017 - 1.5.0 + + - Published an OTP support policy, triage schedule, IRC channel + - Apply build patches for Perls >= 5.22 on older OTP releases (#198) + - Fix bad `read` usage (#200) + - Add a force flag for mv (#201) + - Use a more portable way to get perl minor release version (#204) + - Force 64 bit flag on macOS (#205) + - Fix documentation symlinks (#206) + 22 February 2017 - 1.4.2 - Fixed a syntax error when comparing hash outputs on reconfigurations (#191) |