SIGs/Erlang

Erlang Special Interest Group

Mission

To encourage the packaging of Erlang projects in Fedora.

Members/Packagers/Reviewers

• PeterLemenkov
• ConradMeyer
• Hans Ulrich Niedermann (ndim)

Please add your name above if you want to help.

Tasks

• 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).

Current packages

Name	EL-4	EL-5	EL-6	F-12	F-13	F-14	Rawhide
compat-erlang	-	-	-	R10B-10	R10B-10	R10B-10	R10B-10
couchdb	-	0.10.2	1.0.1	0.11.2	0.11.2	1.0.1	1.0.1
ejabberd	-	2.1.5	2.1.5	2.1.5	2.1.5	2.1.5	2.1.5
erlang	R11B-2	R12B-5	R13B-04	R13B-04	R13B-04	R14B-0	R14B-0
erlang-amf	-	wip	0.git27329144	wip	wip	wip	0.git27329144
erlang-eradius	0.20070627cvs	0.20070627cvs	0.20070627cvs	0.20070627cvs	0.20070627cvs	0.20070627cvs	0.20070627cvs
erlang-erlsyslog	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1
erlang-esdl	-	-	-	1.0.1	1.0.1	1.0.1	1.0.1
erlang-oauth	-	0.gite8aecf0	0.gite8aecf0	0.gite8aecf0	0.gite8aecf0	0.gite8aecf0	0.gite8aecf0
erlang-pgsql	0.20080825svn	0.20080825svn	0.20080825svn	0.20080825svn	0.20080825svn	0.20080825svn	0.20080825svn
erlsom	1.2.1	1.2.1	1.2.1	1.2.1	1.2.1	1.2.1	1.2.1
ErlyDTL	-	-	-	-	-	0.6.0	0.6.0
esasl	-	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1
etap	0.3.4	0.3.4	0.3.4	0.3.4	0.3.4	0.3.4	0.3.4
ibrowse	-	1.6.0-0.git07153bc	2.0.1	1.6.0-0.git07153bc	1.6.0-0.git07153bc	1.6.0-0.git07153bc	2.0.1
log4erl	-	wip	0.9.0	wip	wip	wip	0.9.0
misultin	-	wip	0.6.1	wip	wip	wip	0.6.1
mochiweb	-	1.3-0.git9a53dbd7	1.3-0.git9a53dbd7	1.3-0.git9a53dbd7	1.3-0.git9a53dbd7	1.3-0.git9a53dbd7	1.3-0.git9a53dbd7
rabbitmq-server	-	1.8.0	1.8.0	1.8.0	1.8.0	1.8.0	1.8.0
wings	-	-	-	1.0.1	1.0.1	1.2	1.2

Reviews

• 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

Potential packages

• 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.
• erlang-getopt - Erlang module to parse command line arguments using the GNU getopt syntax. 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.

Rejected packages

• Jabberlang - a client Jabber library for Erlang. Obsoleted by exmpp