Maven Erlang plugin

Tracker: Feature Requests

5 Suggested feature: Download erlang distribution as depency? - ID: 2500360

Last Update: Comment added ( genthaler )

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This is a great plugin, but why not take it a step further?

Could the plugin not in fact follow the Maven philosophy of resolving
dependencies to its logical endpoint and in fact download the Erlang
distribution (for the invoked platform) as well?

The maven flex mojos plugin does this, for example. With it, it's not
necessary to have Flex Builder, etc. installed, Maven takes care of
everything.

This would make it easier for Erlang to "infiltrate" into shops that are
currently "Java only"...

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Nobody/Anonymous ( nobody ) - 2009-01-12 01:59

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Date: 2009-09-25 12:11 Sender: genthaler I'm not sure that's what adamselene is getting at; sounds to me more like the erlang distros themselves, packaged as Maven dependencies. It'd be easy enough to do, since Maven knows where the local repository lives and the maven-erlang plugin could therefore easily obtain a path to the Erlang erl/erlc binaries. It would also make it somewhat easier to package applications as standalone bundles. More difficult might be licensing, bandwidth. I'm not sure that the standard Maven2 repo at http://repo1.maven.org/maven2 would be too happy about 60+MB artifacts. There's also the tedium of packaging the distro into the right format each time a new Erlang release comes out (although this could be scripted fairly easily).
Date: 2009-06-19 14:03 Sender: adamselene We're currently looking into it. The problem is finding an Erlang repository both complete and up to date. CEAN (http://cean.process-one.net/) is a pretty good candidate for that.

Date: 2009-09-25 12:11
Sender: genthaler

I'm not sure that's what adamselene is getting at; sounds to me more like
the erlang distros themselves, packaged as Maven dependencies. It'd be easy
enough to do, since Maven knows where the local repository lives and the
maven-erlang plugin could therefore easily obtain a path to the Erlang
erl/erlc binaries. It would also make it somewhat easier to package
applications as standalone bundles. More difficult might be licensing,
bandwidth. I'm not sure that the standard Maven2 repo at
http://repo1.maven.org/maven2 would be too happy about 60+MB artifacts.
There's also the tedium of packaging the distro into the right format each
time a new Erlang release comes out (although this could be scripted fairly
easily).

Date: 2009-06-19 14:03
Sender: adamselene

We're currently looking into it. The problem is finding an Erlang
repository both complete and up to date. CEAN
(http://cean.process-one.net/) is a pretty good candidate for that.

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Maven Erlang plugin

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