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| author | Loïc Hoguin <[email protected]> | 2016-03-28 15:36:42 +0200 |
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+Erlang.mk project.</p></div>
+<div class="sect1">
+<h2 id="_before_erlang_mk">Before Erlang.mk</h2>
+<div class="sectionbody">
+<div class="paragraph"><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></div>
+<div class="paragraph"><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>ct_run</code>
+directly. On January 4th, 2013, the Cowboy test suite took less
+than a minute to complete.</p></div>
+<div class="paragraph"><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></div>
+<div class="paragraph"><p>Erlang.mk was conceived.</p></div>
+<div class="paragraph"><p>A few months passed and, on May 1st, 2013, the Erlang.mk
+repository was created. Erlang.mk was born.</p></div>
+<div class="paragraph"><p>Little did I know how much it would grow.</p></div>
+</div>
+</div>
+<div class="sect1">
+<h2 id="_lifetime_of_the_project">Lifetime of the project</h2>
+<div class="sectionbody">
+<div class="paragraph"><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></div>
+<div class="paragraph"><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></div>
+<div class="paragraph"><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></div>
+<div class="paragraph"><p>A package index was added to solve the problem of discovering
+Erlang projects.</p></div>
+<div class="paragraph"><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></div>
+<div class="paragraph"><p>Erlang.mk documentation was much improved and the Erlang.mk website
+was created in the summer of 2015.</p></div>
+<div class="paragraph"><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></div>
+<div class="paragraph"><p>A bright future lies ahead.</p></div>
+</div>
+</div>
+ + + +</div> + +<div class="span3 sidecol"> + + +<h3> + Erlang.mk + 1 + + User Guide +</h3> + +<ul> + + + +</ul> + +<h4 id="docs-nav">Navigation</h4> + +<h4>Version select</h4> +<ul> + + + + <li><a href="/docs/en/erlang.mk/1/guide">1</a></li> + +</ul> + +</div> +</div> +</div> +</div> + + <footer> + <div class="container"> + <div class="row"> + <div class="span6"> + <p id="scroll-top"><a href="#">↑ Scroll to top</a></p> + <nav> + <ul> + <li><a href="mailto:[email protected]" title="Contact us">Contact us</a></li><li><a href="https://github.com/ninenines/ninenines.github.io" title="Github repository">Contribute to this site</a></li> + </ul> + </nav> + </div> + <div class="span6 credits"> + <p><img src="/img/footer_logo.png"></p> + <p>Copyright © Loïc Hoguin 2012-2016</p> + </div> + </div> + </div> + </footer> + + + <script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.7.1/jquery.min.js"></script> + <script src="/js/bootstrap-carousel.js"></script> + <script src="/js/bootstrap-dropdown.js"></script> + <script src="/js/custom.js"></script> + </body> +</html> + + |