Revision as of 10:15, 12 January 2011

Erlang Special Interest Group

To encourage the packaging of Erlang projects in Fedora.

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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)
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).
pgsql needs patching for R11B due to missing lists:keymember/3 function. Seems to be a very simple task.

↑ No ets:delete/2, ets:insert/2, ets:lookup/2, ets:match_object/2, ets:new/2 and ets:update_counter/3 functions in R11B.
↑ No erlang:function_exported/3, lists:keysearch/3 and lists:member/2 functions available in R11B
↑ No lists:keymember/3, lists:keysearch/3 and string:to_lower/1 functions available in R11B
↑ No public_key module and base64:decode/1, base64:encode_to_string/1, httpc:request/4, re:split/3 and string:to_lower/1 functions available in R11B
↑ No erlang:iolist_to_binary/1, lists:keymember/3, lists:keysearch/3,lists:keytake/3, lists:member/2, string:join/2 and string:to_lower/1 functions available in R11B.
↑ No erlang:get_stacktrace/0, erlang:list_to_existing_atom/1, erlang:make_fun/3, lists:keysearch/3 and lists:member/2 functions available in R11B. It seems to be a doable task.
↑ Erlang >= R13B is required, so some functions won't work as expected.
↑ libgsasl is unavailable for EL-4
↑ Lots of missing required functions in R11B.
↑ Erlang >= R13B is required
↑ Erlang >= R13B is required

exmpp - a fast and scalable library for the eXtensible Messaging and Presence Protocol.
erlang-etorrent - Erlang BitTorrent client and library
erlang-js - A Friendly Erlang to Javascript Binding
erlang-riak_client - Erlang client for Riak
erlang-webmachine - A REST-based system for building web applications
erlang-luke - Dataflow / MapReduce coordination framework
erlang-riak_core - Distributed systems infrastructure used by Riak
erlang-bitcask - Eric Brewer-inspired key/value store
erlang-riak_kv - Riak Key/Value Store
erlang-skerl - Skein hash function for Erlang, via NIFs
erlang-luwak - Large-object storage interface for Riak
riak - Dynamo-inspired key/value store

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.
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.

~~Jabberlang - a client Jabber library for Erlang~~. Obsoleted by exmpp
~~erlmedia - Erlang library for parsing different media formats. One of the requirements for erlyvideo~~. Abandoned by upstream authors.
~~erlang-rtmp - Erlang RTMP library. One of the requirements for erlyvideo~~. Abandoned by upstream authors.
~~erlang-fd_server~~. Similar functionality (binding to privileged ports) may be obtained with kernel > 2.6.24 with capabilities.

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