[erlang-questions] Included applications in releases : differences between r14 and r15

[Russell Brown]

Hi,

I have an application that wants to supervise another application. Looking at http://www.erlang.org/doc/design_principles/included_applications.html it seemed that an included application was the way to go.

I added the included app like this

  {included_applications, [the_app]},

in the primary applications .app file.

When I build a release with rebar under r15 the boot script does _NOT_ start the included app, as hoped and expected. However, the exact same code and config on r14 results in this line appearing in the boost script

{apply,{application,start_boot,[the_app,permanent]}},

Which means the app is started on boot, and my subsequent call to start the top level supervisor of the included app fails with `already_started`.

What is the correct way to include an app so that it is loaded, but not started, in r14, so that I may have my primary app call the top level supervisor of the included application, please?

Also, in Learn You some Erlang, there is a section that says "don't do this"  (http://learnyousomeerlang.com/the-count-of-applications#included-applications.) Is there a better way to achieve what I am after?

Cheers

Russell

[Russell Brown]

Going to answer my own question here, sorry.

{my_app, load} in the rel_app list in the `rel` tuple in my retool.config fixes the problem.

Is that the correct way?

Cheers

Russell