Revision as of 13:26, 30 September 2010

Erlang Special Interest Group

To encourage the packaging of Erlang projects in Fedora.

Please add your name above if you want to help.

Create common guidelines for erlang-related applications and libraries
Ensure that all packages are built with +debug_info (slightly increase the size of beam-files, but won't hurt performance at all)
Allow parallel installation of packages (similar to kernel)
Update CouchDB in EL-5 up to 0.11.x.
Retire compat-erlang in Rawhide. Would it be better to update it to R12 or R13?
Wings3D is heavily broken now in all repositories. This issue urgently needs fix.
Provide pre-built plt images
Narrow Build Requires - only list packages which are required for building and not the whole erlang stack.
Remove "soft" dependencies. Some package dependencies are not strictly required - application tries to "dlopen" it (it starts to use it only in case of success; in case of failure it fallbacks to some default scenario). Notable one is a debugger which tries to download GUI interface and fallbacks to cli in case of failure.
Fix installation of jinterface - it doesn't use %{_javadir} for storing jar-file now.
All man-pages should be marked as docs. Consider also installing them to system-default paths (very likely will produce a conflicts and namespace clashes).

Yaws - Web server for dynamic content written in Erlang. (First attempt to package it)
exmpp - a fast and scalable library for the eXtensible Messaging and Presence Protocol.
erlang-gen_leader - A leader election behavior modeled after gen_server
erlang-gproc - Extended process registry for Erlang
erlang-getopt - Erlang module to parse command line arguments using the GNU getopt syntax

erlyweb
Yxa
erlang-mysql-driver - A native Erlang MySQL client library. One of the runtime dependencies for ejabberd. Please, not that there are two forks - one from P1 and another one from Yariv Sadan. All these three projects are based on the original work by Magnus Ahltorp.
erlang-fd_server. Please, note that similar functionality (binding to privileged ports) may be obtained with kernel > 2.6.24 with capabilities.
Jungerl is also contains some very interesting libraries and applications, however not all of them are in good shape.
User contributions page at trapexit contains some handy user-submitted utilities.
Nitrogen Web Framework.
egssapi - Erlang GSSAPI and SPNEGO API (one of the runtime requirements for Yaws).
eldap - Erlang LDAP API. A patched copy is bundled with ejabberd.
erlmedia - Erlang library for parsing different media formats. One of the requirements for erlyvideo.
erlang-rtmp - Erlang RTMP library. One of the requirements for erlyvideo.
Riak - a Dynamo-inspired key/value store.
Rebar - Erlang Build Tools.
neotoma - Erlang library and packrat parser-generator for parsing expression grammars. One of the requirements for rebar.
lfe - Lisp Flavoured Erlang. One of the requirements for rebar.
erlang_protobuffs - A set of Protocol Buffers tools and modules for Erlang applications. One of the requirements for rebar.
erlang-mustache - Mustache template engine for Erlang. One of the requirements for rebar.

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 * [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/638906 erlang-gen_leader] - A leader election behavior modeled after gen_server
 * [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/638909 erlang-gproc] - Extended process registry for Erlang
+* [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/638948 erlang-getopt] - Erlang module to parse command line arguments using the GNU getopt syntax
 == Potential packages ==
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 * [http://hg.basho.com/rebar/ Rebar] - Erlang Build Tools.
 * [http://github.com/seancribbs/neotoma neotoma] - Erlang library and packrat parser-generator for parsing expression grammars. One of the requirements for rebar.
-* [http://github.com/jcomellas/getopt erlang-getopt] - Erlang module to parse command line arguments using the GNU getopt syntax. One of the requirements for rebar.
 * [http://github.com/rvirding/lfe lfe] - Lisp Flavoured Erlang. One of the requirements for rebar.
 * [http://github.com/ngerakines/erlang_protobuffs erlang_protobuffs] - A set of Protocol Buffers tools and modules for Erlang applications. One of the requirements for rebar.