[erlang-questions] Erlang/OTP R13B04 has been released

[Kenneth Lundin]

Bug fix release : otp_src_R13B04
Build date      : 2010-02-23

This is R13B04, the fourth maintenance release for the R13B major release.

You can find the README file for the release at

http://www.erlang.org/download/otp_src_R13B04.readme

The source distribution and binary distribution for Windows can be
downloaded from

http://www.erlang.org/download/otp_src_R13B04.tar.gz
http://www.erlang.org/download/otp_win32_R13B04.exe

The distribution can also be downloaded using the BitTorrent
protocol. Use the following torrent files to download the source
distribution and binary distribution for Windows:

http://www.erlang.org/download/otp_src_R13B04.tar.gz.torrent
http://www.erlang.org/download/otp_win32_R13B04.exe.torrent

Note: To unpack the TAR archive you need a GNU TAR compatible program.

For installation instructions please read the README file that is part
of the distribution.

The on-line documentation can be found at: http://www.erlang.org/doc/
You can also download the complete HTML documentation or the Unix manual files

http://www.erlang.org/download/otp_doc_html_R13B04.tar.gz
http://www.erlang.org/download/otp_doc_man_R13B04.tar.gz

We also want to thank those that sent us patches, suggestions and bug
reports,

The OTP Team
Kenneth Lundin, Erlang/OTP, Ericsson AB

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[Max Lapshin]

Have you added setting PATH environment to windows installer?

[Jayson Vantuyl]

Max,

I don't see it in the Release README. Did you submit a patch?

--
Jayson Vantuyl
kag...@souja.net

[Max Lapshin]

On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 2:22 PM, Jayson Vantuyl <kag...@souja.net> wrote:
> Max,
>
> I don't see it in the Release README.  Did you submit a patch?
>

No, because I don't know even where is the windows installer source lays =(

[Jayson Vantuyl]

Max,

Sorry, it doesn't look like the installer was modified in this release. It appears that Erlang uses the NullSoft Install System. The files used to build the installer are in "erts/etc/win32/nsis" (http://github.com/erlang/otp/tree/ccase/r13b04_dev/erts/etc/win32/nsis/).

There seems to be two installer scripts: erlang.nsi and erlang20.nsi. They look like they are each used in turn for different versions of the installer system.

On the web, I found the following information about using NSIS to modify the path of a system:

> http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Environmental_Variables:_append,_prepend,_and_remove_entries

I have no idea if this is really useful information. Unfortunately, I don't have the environment necessary to build OTP for Windows, so I can't make a patch for you. I hope you can figure it out or find someone who can. Good luck, and I look forward to seeing the patch come through.

--
Jayson Vantuyl
kag...@souja.net

[Max Lapshin]

Oh, thank you for pointing me into sources. I will prepare patch and submit it.
I really do require this feature, because erlyvideo users complain
that "not working"

[Kenneth Lundin]

Hi,

Long time ago we did update the path in the Windows Installer but we
removed it later
for several reasons:

1. We don't think it is common practice in Windows installers to update the path
2. A number of problems can arise if the installer updates the path
automatically,
- where in the path should we put our entry?
- what to do if there are several versions of Erlang installed
- remove path during uninstall?
3. You may need to restart Windows in order to use the updated path

So please don't provide a patch since I don't think we will accept it.
By the way we don't update the path on Linux, Solaris etc either.

We think it is better to let the user handle the path by himself.

In your particular case where you have an application written in
Erlang I think you
should make an installer for your App and there you can update the
path if you want
and possibly invoke the Erlang/OTP installer from your installer.

We deliver a development system that you install on your system.
With this system you develop your application.
In order to distribute your application you package it together with a
subset of the components in Erlang/OTP (i.e only the components you
need) and make your own installer. NSIS is a free Installer maker for
Windows that we use.

Reltool is a tool that you can use for making your own package. It
helps you to create a file tree
with the necessary files but it does not help you doing the installer.
What might be helpful would be to provide a skeleton for an installer
, we have considered that but
i can't promise when it will happen.

/Kenneth, Erlang/OTP Ericsson

[Anders Dahlin]

Hi,

The windows distribution seems to be lacking files in the
tools-2.6.5.1/emacs directory. I only get:

erlang-eunit.el
erlang-start.el
erlang.el
README
test.erl.indented
test.erl.orig

Brgds,
/Anders

[Dan Gudmundsson]

Sigh..

They are available here:

http://github.com/erlang/otp/raw/ccase/r13b04_dev/lib/tools/emacs/erlang-skels-old.el
http://github.com/erlang/otp/raw/ccase/r13b04_dev/lib/tools/emacs/erlang-skels.el

/Dan

[Kay Kay]

This is great.

Curious - how close is the integration of the release with the ubuntu
repositories , so that it would be available for update as well.

[Håkan Mattsson]

As the branch "ccase/r13b04_dev" now has been replaced with "dev"
the files are found here:

http://github.com/erlang/otp/raw/dev/lib/tools/emacs/erlang-skels-old.el
http://github.com/erlang/otp/raw/dev/lib/tools/emacs/erlang-skels.el

/Håkan

[Elliot Murphy]

Hi!

Ubuntu usually syncs packages from Debian and tries to minimize the
differences. The version of Ubuntu currently in development, Ubuntu 10.04,
has already stopped taking new versions of software and is focused on
stabilizing and bugfixes in preparation for release in April. So this
version of Erlang would likely go into Ubuntu 10.10 which will be released
in October. If there are important bugs fixed by this version of Erlang,
specific bugfixes may be able to be backported into stable releases of
Ubuntu that have already shipped.

It should be possible to prepare a package of this new release in a PPA
(personal package archive) so that it can easily be installed by folks
wanting to have the very latest Erlang on Ubuntu. I have attempted to
prepare these packages and uploaded them here:
https://edge.launchpad.net/~erlang-dev/+archive/ppa . Hopefully they build
ok and are useful to you - please let me know if these packages worked fine
or if they had problems.

Normally Sergei uploads new versions of Erlang to Debian very shortly after
they are released, so I'd imagine this latest Erlang will be available in
Debian testing before very long.

Elliot Murphy

On Feb 24, 2010 1:34 PM, "Kay Kay" <kaykay...@gmail.com> wrote:

This is great.

Curious - how close is the integration of the release with the ubuntu
repositories , so that it would be available for update as well.

On 2/24/10 3:00 AM, Kenneth Lundin wrote:
>
> Bug fix release : otp_src_R13B04

> Build date ...

[Gábor Lipták]

jinterface 1.5.3 is available in the Maven2 repo:

http://repo2.maven.org/maven2/org/erlang/otp/jinterface/1.5.3/

Thanks