[99s-extend] [erlang-questions] [ANN] erlang.mk build tool

Fri Aug 16 16:42:28 CEST 2013

Why not use Erlang for downloading? Surely if erlang.mk is a tool for 
+Erlang then it will be very likely installed. For example this target 
+downloads Rebar:
+
+# Erlang Rebar downloading, see:
+# 
+https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/erlang-programming/U0JJ3SeUv5Y
+rb_rebar_url=http://cloud.github.com/downloads/basho/rebar/rebar
+./rebar:
+$(ERL) -noshell -s inets -s ssl \
+-eval 'httpc:request(get, {"$(rb_rebar_url)", []}, [], [{stream, 
+"./rebar"}])' \
+-s init stop
+chmod +x ./rebar
+REBAR=$(shell (type rebar 2>/dev/null || echo ./rebar) | tail -1 | awk 
+'{ print $$NF }')
+
+
+It could be used to download anything, not just REBAR.
+
+- Greg
+
+
+On 16/08/2013 15:34, Loïc Hoguin wrote:
+> On 08/16/2013 10:39 AM, Benoit Chesneau wrote:
+>> The big problem with erlang.mk <http://erlang.mk> is requiring to have
+>> gmake and more importantly wget installed imo.
+>
+> wget is only used for fetching the package index file. I'm sure if it 
+> doesn't work somewhere it'll be patched eventually.
+>
+>> Which makes it quite annoying to distribute on systems that have none of
+>> them. It would be interrestin to have the support for curl for example.
+>> Also what are the makefile extensions that you really need to require 
+>> gmake?
+>
+> No idea. Patches are welcome for compatibility with different OS/build 
+> tools (as long as it's not "rewrite the whole file" of course, then 
+> you're better off just using gmake).
+>
+>> - benoit
+>>
+>>
+>> On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 4:19 PM, Loïc Hoguin <essen at ninenines.eu
+>> <mailto:essen at ninenines.eu>> wrote:
+>>
+>>     Hello friendly people,
+>>
+>>     I would like to make an official announcement of erlang.mk
+>>     <http://erlang.mk> now that all the features I wanted are in.
+>>
+>>     erlang.mk <http://erlang.mk> is a rebar replacement. It was
+>>     initially created for allowing a faster development process than
+>>     rebar and for better compatibility with Linux build tools. It should
+>>     work on Linux and OSX with GNU Make installed.
+>>
+>>     Projects using erlang.mk <http://erlang.mk> are still compatible
+>>     with rebar. Dependencies fetched by rebar are stored in the same
+>>     deps/ directory, and projects using erlang.mk <http://erlang.mk> can
+>>     still be used as rebar dependencies, with or without a rebar.config
+>>     file.
+>>
+>>     erlang.mk <http://erlang.mk> also features a simple package index.
+>>     Try `make pkg-list` to list all packages currently available. All
+>>     the packages listed are compatible with erlang.mk <http://erlang.mk>
+>>     with no tweaking required.
+>>
+>>     Makefiles written with erlang.mk <http://erlang.mk> are *VERY*
+>>     simple, here are two examples:
+>>
+>>       * https://github.com/extend/__farwest/blob/master/Makefile
+>> <https://github.com/extend/farwest/blob/master/Makefile>
+>>       * https://github.com/extend/__cowboy/blob/master/Makefile
+>> <https://github.com/extend/cowboy/blob/master/Makefile>
+>>
+>>     I wrote about erlang.mk <http://erlang.mk> and relx recently on the
+>>     Nine Nines blog. erlang.mk <http://erlang.mk> is the perfect
+>>     companion to relx.
+>>
+>>       * http://ninenines.eu/articles/__erlang.mk-and-relx
+>>     <http://ninenines.eu/articles/erlang.mk-and-relx>
+>>
+>>     Here are examples of projects that are using and compatible with
+>>     erlang.mk <http://erlang.mk>:
+>>
+>>       * https://github.com/jlouis/__etorrent
+>>     <https://github.com/jlouis/etorrent>
+>>       * https://github.com/extend/__cowboy
+>>     <https://github.com/extend/cowboy>
+>>       * https://github.com/extend/__farwest
+>>     <https://github.com/extend/farwest>
+>>
+>>     You can find erlang.mk <http://erlang.mk> at the following URL:
+>>
+>>       * https://github.com/extend/__erlang.mk
+>>     <https://github.com/extend/erlang.mk>
+>>
+>>     Contributions to the package index are of course welcome! The only
+>>     requirement is that the package is to be compatible with erlang.mk
+>>     <http://erlang.mk> itself. Just send a PR to the erlang.mk
+>>     <http://erlang.mk> project updating the packages.v1.txt!
+>>
+>>     Enjoy!
+>>
+>>     --
+>>     Loïc Hoguin
+>>     Erlang Cowboy
+>>     Nine Nines
+>>     http://ninenines.eu
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+>>
+>>
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